Section VI - Massey Data Bank

One Maryland Massey Family by George Langford, Jr. 1901-1996 ©Cullen G. Langford and George Langford, III, 2010

Maryland Land Records, Kent County, DD #1, pp. 490-492
Thomas Gilpin to Daniel Massey, March 5, 1764

This indenture made this eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and sixty four. Between Thomas Gilpin of the city of Philadelphia and the Province of Pennsylvania, merchant of the one part and Daniel Massey of Kent County in the Province of Maryland, farmer of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Thomas Gilpin for and in consideration of the quantity of thirty nine acres and half of an acre of land being part of a tract of land called London Bridge Renewed this day sold and conveyed by aforesaid Massey to aforesaid Gilpin on the deed bargain and sale with more fully appear the execution of which deed he the said Thomas Gilpin does hereby acknowledge and confess and thereof doth thereby exonerate and discharge him the said Daniel Massey, his heirs, executors, and administrators, forever by these presents have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, transferred, and confirmed and by these presents does hereby grant, bargain, sell, alien, release, transfer, enfeoff, confirm unto him the said Daniel Massey, his heirs or assigns all that parcel of land being part of a parcel or a tract or parcel of land called Hall's Harbour and Bridge Sound Commons, lying and being in Kent County aforesaid. Beginning at a marked sassafras post marked with twelve notches the said post standing where the South East or North West line of said Massey land crosses the East side bounding line of the [illegible] land of aforesaid mill of Thomas Gilpin and running from thence South thirty seven degrees West eighty two perches and South sixty nine [degrees] East forty four perches thence South seventy eight [degrees] East sixteen perches then North sixty two degrees East seventy perches and from thence with a straight line to the first place of beginning, containing and now laid out for thirty seven acres of land be the same more or less together with all and all manner of profits, improvements onto, and advantages to the same or any part thereof belonging or in any ways appertaining and all the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, of all of singular the before granted land and premises with the whole of the appurtenances [and] improvements thereunto belonging in every part and parcel thereof as above granted unto him the said Daniel Massey, his heirs, or assigns, forever and to the only proper use and behoof of him the said Daniel Massey, his heirs, or assigns, forever more.  To have and to hold the before granted land and premises with the whole of the appurtenances with every part or parcel thereof unto him the said Daniel Massey, his heirs, or assigns, and further the said Thomas Gilpin does by these presents for himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant, grant, and agree to and with him the said Daniel Massey, his heirs, or assigns in manner and form following, that it is to say that he the said Thomas Gilpin, his heirs, executors, or administrators, at any time or times thereafter at the reasonable request, cost, and charges of him the said Daniel Massey, his heirs, or assigns, make and acknowledge and execute or cause to be made, done, acknowledged, and executed, and every such other and further lawful reasonable act and act, thing, and things, devices, conveyances, [illegible] in the law whatsoever of this kind whatsoever for the further and better, more perfect, and absolute conveying and assuring the said parcel of land with the appurtenances above granted and every part and parcel thereof unto him the said Daniel Massey, his heirs, or assigns, forever as by him the said Daniel Massey, his heirs, or assigns, or his, or their counsel learned in the law shall be in that behalf lawfully and reasonably devised, advised, or required, and also that the said Thomas Gilpin, his heirs, executors, and administrators, the said tract and parcel of land and premises with all the appurtenances shall and will warrant and forever defend against all manner of persons whatsoever claiming or hereafter shall claim the same by from or under him the said Thomas Gilpin, his heirs, or assigns. In witness whereof the said Thomas Gilpin doth to this present indenture set his hand and affixes his seal the day and year first above written. Thomas Gilpin {seal} Signed sealed & delivered in presence of us James Pearce [illegible] Eccleston Received this 10th day of February 1764 of Daniel Massey [illegible] deed of conveyance for thirty nine acres and a half of land called London Bridge Renewed, executed by the said Daniel Massey the above-mentioned date, it being in full consideration for the within mentioned land. Received [illegible] Thomas Gilpin Testis - James Pearce  On the 10th day of February 6, 1764 the within mentioned Daniel Gilpin came before the two of his Lordship's justices of the peace for Kent County and did acknowledge the within deed to be his voluntary act and deed and the land and premises thereon mentioned to be the right, title, and estate of the within mentioned Daniel Massey, his heirs and assigns forever, according to the true intent and meaning of the within deed acknowledged before us. James Pearce    [illegible] Eccleston Received March 5, 1764, Daniel Massey one shilling and six pence sterling as an alienation fine on the within land due to the Lord priority proprietor and received for his use. Joseph Nicholson Recorded this fifth day of March 1764.  Daniel Dulany [Kent County] Clerk