Index

Year

Grantor

Grantee

Parcel

Acreage

Lib:No:Fol

Link

Abstract

309

1711

Thomas Massey

Robert Mansfield

Sewards Hope

150

JS:N:279

Deed

March 3, 1711 (Recorded May 30, 1712): Thomas Massey, planter of Kent County in Maryland,  sells for 6,000 pounds of tobacco a 150-acre tract called Seward's Hope (given to him by Thomas Seward and lying next to a tract owned by one Parrott) to Robert Mansfield, also a planter of Kent County.  Courses: Beginning at a marked white oak standing by a branch side and in the line of said Parrott's land and running with the aforesaid Parrott's [line] South East 240 perches to a marked pock hickory tree standing in the woods; from the said tree running North East 100 perches and from the end of the North East line, North West 240 perches to the aforesaid branch, and then with the said branch South West 100 perches to the first bounded tree, containing and laid out for 150 acres. Witnesses acting for the Crown: Edward Blay and William Comegys; Kent County clerk at the time was James Smith.