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519. Ex.d Del.d & paid This Indenture made this seventeenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty five Between Clement Hollyday & Gabriel Duvall two of the Commissioners appointed to preserve confiscated British property of the one part and Henry Chew Gaither of Montgomery County Gentleman of the other part Whereas on the twenty second and twenty third days of October in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two the Commissioners for the time being by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland entitled an Act for the sale of certain confiscated British Property pledged for the redemption of Certificates and an other act entitled an Act to postpone the sale of certain confiscated British property for the redemption of Certificates and by Virtue of other the Acts of the General Assembly touching and concerning the confiscation preservation and Sale of British Property did sell and dispose of My Lady's Manor in Baltimore or Baltimore and Harford Counties and at the said Sale the aforesaid Henry Chew Gaither because the purchaser of Lot Number Twenty one at and for the sum of one hundred and seventy one pounds he being the highest bidder for the said Lots at the price aforesaid Now This Indenture Witnesseth that the said Clement Hollyday and Gabriel Duvall for and in consideration of the premises and the said Henry Chew Gaither having paid the whole of the Money due for said Lots Have granted bargained and sold and by these presents Do grant bargain & sell unto him the said Henry Chew Gaither his heirs and assigns forever the two Lots aforesaid being part of My Lady's Manor Beginning for Number Twenty One West North west twenty perches distance from a bounded white oak the second boundary of a Lot of Land on said Manor formerly surveyed for John Cook called Cook's End and running thence East South East seventeen perches to Lot Number Eighteen thence bounding on said Lot reversely the three folloing courses Viz.t North nineteen degrees East Nine perches North fifty one Degrees East one hundred and eighty five perches North seventy five Degrees East forty one perches to a bounded Spanish oak the beginning Tree of a Lot of Land on said Manor claimed by Josiah Carter thence North eighty one degrees forty five minutes East four perches North West by North thirty one perches North eighty two Degrees west forty eight perches North thirty three degrees west forty nine perches North seventy one Degrees West nineteen perches and a half to a bounded Chestnut standing on a ridge on the East side of the little Falls of Gunpowder Ricer thence South sixty three degrees thirty minutes west seventy four perches to two small bounded white oaks standing on the side of a hill thence North seventy (four) |
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