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664. Whereof I have hereto set my Hand the Day & year above Written Recorded 30.th Sept.r 1765 Jn.o Brice 5 sides Examined This Indenture made the Twenty first day of May in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty five Between Henry Dorsey Gentleman of Ann Arundel County of the province of Maryland of the one part & the Honble John Tayloe & Presby Thornton Esq.rs of the Colony of Virginia on the other Part Witnesseth that the said Henry Dorsey for and in Consideration of the sum of twelve hundred pounds Sterling Money of Great Britain to him in hand paid before ensealing & Delivery of these presents the Receipt Whereof he doth hereby acknowledge & them the said John Tayloe & Presby Thornton their Heirs Executors & Administrators do clearly fully & Absolutely forever Acquit & discharge Hath Granted Bargained Sold Aliened Enfeoffed & Confirmed & by these Presents doth fully clearly & absolutely give grant Bargain sell Allien Enfeoff & Confirm unto the said John Tayloe & Presby Thornton Esq.rs their Heirs & Assigns forever all those two Several Tracts or parcells of Land according to their meets and bounds hereafter express'd lying & being situate on Elk Ridge in Annarundel County in the said Province of Maryland viz.t all that Tract or Parcel of Land called & known by the name of Dorsey's Angles which Tract of Land was originally taken up by Joshua Dorsey Father to the said Henry Dorsey Party to these presents as by Deeds from the Proprietors office bearing date the tenth day of June Seventeen hundred & thirty four may more fully appear Beginning on a branch of Potapsco River called deep [illegible] on or near the Center between three bounded White oaks and a bounded Poplar which said poplar being also the beginning tree of a Tract of Land called Timber Neck standing on the south side of a Run called middle run it being likewise the beginning tree of a Tract of Land called Batchelors Hall formerly surveyed for one John Medcalf & Running thence South nineteen & a half Degrees East Seventy three perches then South Seventy seven degrees East fifty two Perches then south thirty two degrees East forty eight perches thence South seventy Seven degrees East one hundred and three perches thence South twelve degrees West twenty six perches thence South sixty six degrees West Sixty Six Perches thence North Eighty Eight Degrees West forty Perches thence South twenty three & half degrees West thirty seven perches thence south Eighty four Degrees East forty Perches (thence) |
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Provincial Court Land Records, 1763-1765
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