Land:  Deed of Thomas and Elizabeth Reynolds to Amos and Levina Simpson (1725), 
Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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Deed of Thomas and Elizabeth Reynolds To Their Son-In-Law Amos Simpson and 
daughter Levina, dated 2 April 1725

This deed that proves that the Thomas Reynolds, "high sheriff" of Ann Arundel Co. did 
not die in 1719 as reported in some genealogies but after 1725. 

To All Christian People to whome these Presents shall Come We Thomas Reynolds Senr: 
and Eliza. Reynolds of Ann Arundel County send Greet.g in our Lord God Everlasting 
know ye we the said Thomas Reynolds & Eliza: Reynolds for and Inconsideration of the 
love good will & affection which we have & doe bare Towards our Loveing son in Law 
Amos Simpson & Loving Daughter Levina Sympson of the County Aforesaid have given 
& Granted & by these Presents do freely Clearly & Absolutely give and Grant to the Said 
Amos Sympson & Levina Sympson the Lawfull begotten heirs of their Bodies for Ever 
two hundred and ten Acres of land being Part of a tract Called (food Plenty Containing 
Eight hundred & thirty Acres- lying in Ann Arundell County According to the 
Certification of Survey Begining att two four Notched Red Oaks Standing at the End of 
the twentieth Course of the said Land and Runing Reverse upon the Originall Courses 
South Eighty five Degrees West fourty four Perches then North Seventy four Perches then 
North Eighty two- (Degrees) Degrees west fifty four Perches then North thrity four 
degrees west fifty Eight P:rches then North Sixty two degrees East Seventy four P:rches 
then North forty four degrees west seventy two P:rches then North thirty three degrees 
East fifty two Pr:ches then North Eighty nine degrees East Sixty Perches then North 
Eighty one degrees East Sixty Six Perches then South Eighty two Degrees East fifty five 
Pr:ches then with a Straight line to the Beginining trees Containing and now laid out for 
two hundred and ten Acres more or Less now Called Amoses Lott out of food Plenty TO 
HAVE AND TO HOLD the Af:d Tract of Land w:th all the Appurtenances there unto 
belonging unto the Said Amos Sympson and Levina Sympson and their heirs for Ever 
from hence forth as their Proper Estate of Inheritance for Ever Absolutely with out any 
manner of Condition & further know ye that we the said Thos: Reynolds & Eliza. - 
Reynolds have Put the Afsd: Amos Sympson & Levina Sympson into Peasable Possession 
of the Afsd: Land Appurtanances as Aforesaid by Delivery to Each of them at the 
Ensealing of these Presents one Coined peice of Silver Called Sixpence in Wittness- 
Whereof we have hereunto Sett our hands and Seals this twenty Second day of Aprill in 
the Elventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George by the Grace of God of 
Great Brittaine &c.: and in the year of our Lord God 1725. 

Signed Sealed and Delivered 

Thos: Reynolds (Seal)

her

Eliza. E Reynolds (Seal) 

mark 

in the Presence of 
Sam:ll Young 
Joh Beale 

On the Back of the foregoing deed is thus Endorsed Vizt.-

Aprill the 22:d 1725./
Then Came before me the Subscriber Chief Justice of his Lordships Prov:ll Court of 
Maryland the wthin Named Thomas Reynolds and Eliza. his wife & Acknowledged the 
within deed and the lands therein Mencone4d to be the Right of Amos Sympson and 
Levina his wife and their heirs for Ever According to Law The Said Eliza: being Privately 
Examined out of the hearing of her husband before me 

5/4 Sam:ll Young

Recorded May the 13th: 1725

Source:Maryland State Archives, MD State Archives Documents Collection, MSA SC 
1878-154-1 and 1878-154-2.