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Provincial Court Land Records, 1765-1770
Volume 725, Page 676   View pdf image
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          Know all men by these Presents that I Benjamin Burges Cheney of
       Baltimore County and province of Maryland Planter am held and firmly
       bound unto John Elder of said County and Province aforesaid in the full and
       just Sum of Seven hundred Pounds Sterling Money of Great Britain to be
       paid unto him the said John Elder or his certain Attorney Executors
       Administrators or Assigns to which Payment well and truly to be made
       and done  I bind myself my Heirs Executors and Administrators or Assigns
       firmly by these Presents Sealed with my Seal and Dated this 2.d Day of
       April one Thousand seven hundred and Seventy   the Condition of
       the above Obligation is such that if the above bound Benjamin Burgess
       Cheney by himself his wife and there Heirs Executors Administrators shall
       make over all there Right or Rights of Percells of Lands this day Conveyed
       the said John Elder if required by said John Elder his Heirs or Assigns
       for further Surety or Surety's of said Land so that the said John Elder
       his Heirs or Assigns may have and Indesputable Title to the said
       Lands for ever then the above Obligation to be void else to remain in
       full force and Virtue in Law
       Signed Sealed and Delivered
       in the Presence of us
                                  Tho.s Gassaway son Nich.s      Benj.a Burges Cheney   (Seal)
                                     Edw.d Dorsey son Ed
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       Recorded 2.d day April 1770


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       This Indenture made this fourth day of April Anno Domini
       seventeen hundred and seventy Between Samuel Chew of Ann Arundel
       County in the Province of Maryland Gentleman of the one part and
       Benjamin Burgess Cheney of Baltimore County in the Province affsd
       Planter of the other part  Witnesseth that the said Samuel Chew for
       and in Consideration of the Sum of one Thousand Pounds Current Money
       to him in hand paid before the Ensealing and delivery of these Presents
       by the said Benjamin Burges Cheney the receipt whereof he the said
       Samuel Chew doth hereby acknowledge and himself therewith fully
       Satisfied Contented and paid and hath given granted bargained
       sold Allien'd Enfeoffed and Confirmed  And by these Presents doth
       fully clearly and Absolutely give grant bargain sell Allien Enfeoff
       and Confirm unto the said Benjamin Burgess Cheney his Heirs and
       Assigns for ever all that Tract or parcel of Land called Dunkiel
       lying and being in Baltimore County Butted and Bounded as
       follows   Begining at a bounded Poplar standing on the East Side
       of a run called Winters run and running thence North Three hundred
       and twenty perches then West Two hundred and fifty perches then
       South Three hundred and twenty perches then with a Streight Line to
       the first Begining Containing and Laid out for Five hundred Acres
       of Land more or Less together with all Houses Fencings Orchards
       and all and every other Improvements and Appertinances to the
                                                                                           (same)


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