Deed Between William & Rachel H. DANDO and Thomas GATEHOUSE (1891); Allegany Co., MD ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Beachy Allegany County, MD Land Records - Liber 70-Folio 105 - William & Rachel Dando sell to Thomas Gateman Deed filed and Recorded May 2nd 1891 @8:25 am. THIS DEED made this 1st day of May 1891 by us, William Dando and Rachel H. Dando, his wife, of Allegany County and State of Maryland. WITNESSETH that for and in consideration of the sum of $1600.00 current money the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, we the said William Dando and Rachel H. Dando his wife do grant unto Thomas Gatehouse of County and State aforesaid and unto his heirs and assigns forever. ALL THAT lot, piece or parcel of land lying and being in said Allegany County and State of Maryland and adjoining the town of Frostburg, it being a part of a tract of land called WALNUT LEVEL which part is more particulary described as follows: Beginning at a stake standing at the end of the 3rd line of that part of WALNUT LEVEL laid off for Llewellyn Williams and running thence with said 3rd line reversed West 578 feet to a stake North 10º, West 75 feet to a stake thence East 602 feet to the County Road and with it by a straight line to the beginning, containing one acre more or less. It being the same lot which was conveyed to Evan Evans by Curtin M. Graham and Sarah Wright by deed bearing date February 6th 1874 and recorded in Liber 35- Folio 291, one of the Land Records of Allegany County and which was subsequently conveyed to Curtin M. Graham and Sarah Wright by Evan Evans and Elizabeth Evans his wife by deed bearing date September 27th 1881 and recorded in Liber 55-Folio 460 one of the Land Records of Allegany County and subsequently conveyed by Sarah Wright to William Dando by deed bearing date March 25th 1889 and recorded in Liber 66-Folio 277 and one of the Land Records of Allegany County. Also all that other lot or part of said Walnut Level adjoining the above described Lot and which is described as follows: Beginning at the end of the 3rd line of said above described Lot and running with said line reversed West 602 feet, North 10º, West 66 feet to the end of the second line of Beddington Lot and with the third line thereof East 624 feet to the County Road and with it South 12º, West 66 feet to the beginning. Containing 148½ perches, more or less. Being the same lot which was conveyed to Evan Evans by Curtin M. Graham and Sarah Wright by deed bearing date January 27th 1875 and recorded in Liber 43-Folio 521, one of the Land Records of Allegany County and which was subsequently conveyed by Evan Evans and Elizabeth Evans, his wife to Curtin M. Graham and Sarah Wright by deed bearing date September 27th 1881 and recorded in Liber 55-Folio 460 one of the Land Records of Allegany County and which was subsequently conveyed by Sarah Wright to William Dando by deed bearing date March 25th 1889 and recorded in Liber 66-Folio 277, one of the Land Records of Allegany County together with the buildings and improvements thereon erected on both of the aforesaid described lots and the rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging. Saving and excepting from the operation of this deed all the minerals which may be under the aforesaid lots, pieces or parcels of land as theretofore sold and conveyed by Curtin M. Graham, Susan Graham his wife and Sarah Wright to the Union Mining Company. And the said William Dando and Rachel H. Dando, his wife doth hereby covenant that they will warrant and defend generally (saving and excepting as above excepted) the property hereby conveyed and that they will execute such other and further assurances as may be requisite. AS WITNESS our hands and seals on the day and year above written. Signed by William Dando and Rachel Hamilton Dando - Test by Hugh Atkinson STATE OF MARYLAND - Allegany County to wit: I hereby certify that on the first day of May 1891 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Allegany County, personally appeared William Dando and Rachel H. Dando his wife and acknowledged the aforesaid Deed to be their act. Acknowledged before and certified by Hugh R. Atkinson, J.P. Transcribed by Connie Beachy This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/allegany/land/dandogatehouse.txt