Sussex County DE Archives Deed.....Hearne, Samuel  - Moore, George Lane  December 13, 1768
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Assigned To: Samuel  Hearne
Somerset County, Maryland
Written: December 13, 1768
Recorded: December 13, 1768


                   
Samuel Hearne's acquisition of Fifty Acres named "Moore's Chance."
Ref: Deeds-Somerset Co, Vol. E, folio 17a & b, dated Dec 13, 1768

         This indenture made this thirteenth day of December, in the year of 
our lord one-thousand-seven-hundred and sixty-eight between George Lane Moore 
of Somerset County, and province of Maryland, of the one part and Samuel Hearn 
of the same place, of the other part, witnesseth that the said George Lane 
Moore for and in consideration of the sum of five pounds, current money, of 
Maryland to him in hand paid at and before the sealing and delivery hereof  of 
the receipt whereof he doth hereby confers and acknowledge and thereof doth 
acquit , exonerate, and discharge the said  Samuel Hearn, his heirs, 
executors, and Administrators, forever by these presents hath granted, 
bargained, and sold, aliened, relived, conveyed, and confirmed and by these 
presents doth grant, bargain, and sell, alien, release, convey, and confirm 
unto the said Samuel Hearne and his heirs and assigns forever all that tract 
or parcel of land called "Moore's Chance", situate, lying, and being in 
Somerset County af'd and on the Eastern most side of Chesipeke Bay and 
bounded  as followeth;  Beginning at a marked Red Oak standing between the 
head of Hughes Branch and the dranes of Tursekey Branch and on the south side 
of a tract of land called "Hard Fortune", surveyed for Benjamin Callaway, 
thence with a line drawn south  sixteen degrees, west sixty perches, thence 
south twenty-five degrees, west twenty perches , thence south seventy degrees, 
west forty-six perches thence north eighty-nine degrees, west  twenty-seventy-
nine perches and from thence with a right line to the first beginning 
containing and laid out for fifty acres,  be the same more or less together 
with all improvements, benefits, and advantages thereto belonging or in any 
manner appertaining to have and to hold the af'd parcel of land hereby 
conveyed or so intended to be unto the said Samuel Hearne and to his heirs and 
assigns forever, to the only proper use, benefit, and advantage of the said 
Samuel Hearne and of his heirs and assigns forever and for no other use, 
intent, or purpose, whatsoever and the said George Lane Moore for himself his 
heirs, executors, and Administrators doth hereby convey, and agree and with 
the said Samuel Hearne, his heirs and assigns that he the said George Lane 
Moore and his heirs the land and premises af'd against him and them and all 
other persons legally claiming the same from by or under him or his heirs unto 
the said Samuel Hearne and to his heirs and assigns forever will warrant and 
forever defend by these presents, in witness whereof the parties af'd have 
hereunto interchangeably their hands, set seals, fixed the day and year af'd.
          George Lane Moore
Signed, Sealed, & Delivered in presence of us: 
                                                          Wm. Winder   Wm. 
Adams.

To Wit: the thirteenth day of December, in the year of our lord, one thousand-
seven-hundred -sixty-eight, came before us the subscribers, two of his 
lordships justices of the peace for the county afsd the within named George 
Lane Moore and Marey Moore, his wife and she being by us (strutly) examined 
apart from her husband did with her acknowledge the within mentioned Sand and 
premises to be the right and property of the within named Samuel Herne and of 
his heirs and forever according to the true intent and meaning of the within 
Deed agreeable to an act of assembly in such case made and provided.  
                                                                               
                                             Before Wm Winder
                                                                               
                                                          Wm Adams
Jan. 9,1769 Recd of Samuel Hearne two shillings sterling, alienation fine on 
the within mentioned land .                 
                                                                               
             Wm Murray DCR:
Recorded in LIB "E", fol. 17; on the second day of May, Anno Dom , by Thomas 
Hayward


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