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444) This Indenture made the twelfth day of November one thousand seven hundred and Eighty five Between John Dorsey of Baltimore County of the one Part and John Dorsey of the said County of the other Part Witnesseth that the said John Dorsey for and in consideration of the sum of Five thousand two hundred Pounds Current Money to him in hand paid before the ensealing and delivery of these Presents the the receip whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and therefrom acquit the said Robert Dorsey his heirs Executors and Administrators By these presents have given granted Bargained and Sold Aliened enfeoffed and confirmed an by these presents do give grant bargain Sell enfeoff and confirm unto him the said Robert Dorsey his heirs and assigns for ever all his the said John Dorsey right title claim or Interest either in Law or equity of in or to all that Land & Property lying and situate in Baltimore County on or near Gun Powder Falls which he holds in Company with Charles Ridgely John Sterrett Elam Bailey William Goodwin Samuel Chase Benjamin Nicholson & Darby Lux and whereon is erected the Forges known by the Name of Ridgelys Forges and Furnace formerly called Nottingham Furnace together with all the Lands purchased by the said Charles Ridgely & C.o both in Baltimore and Ann Arundel County for the use of said Furnace and Forges as also all his the said John Dorseys right title claim or Interest of in or to that Tract of Land call'd Eppington Forrest To have and to hold the aforesaid Lands Negroes & Stock of every kind to him the said Robert Dorsey his heirs & assigns for ever and to the only proper use and behoof of him the said Robert Dorsey his heirs and assigns forever In Witness whereof the said John Dorsey hath hereunto sett his hand & affixed his Seale the day and year above written Signed Sealed & Delivered in present of (the words either in Law or equity being first Interlined Jn.o Dorsey (seal) Joseph Ashmead Stephen West On the back of the above Deed was thus written (to wit) Maryland Sc.t November the the 12.th 1785 then came John Dorsey before me one of the Judges of the General Court for the State of Maryland and Acknowledged the within Indenture to be his Act and Deed & the Lands and premisses together with the Negroes & Stock to be the right title and Estate of the within Named Robert Dorsey his heirs & Assigns for ever 3¾ sides A C Hanson Recorded Nov.r the 12.th 1785 |
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