Land: Mortgage by Robert W. & Leta M. Plummer to Samuel J. Arbuckle (1915), Cecil County, MD Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Doug Arbuckle ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Cecil County Land Record Book, Liber CK, Number 11, Folio 125 THIS MORTGAGE, Made this Sixteenth day of October AD, nineteen hundred and fifteen by and between Robert W Plummer and Leta M Plummer, his wife, of Sussex County, in the State of Virginia parties Mortgagors hereto and Samuel J Arbuckle of Cecil County _aforesaid_ party Mortgagee hereto: WITNESSETH, That in consideration of the sum of Five Thousand Dollars now owing from the said Mortgagor Robert W Plummer to said Mortgagee for purchase money for property hereinafter conveyed and for the purpose of better securing the payment thereof, with the interest thereon according to the provisions, convenants(sic) and agreements hereinafter contained we the said Mortgagors do hereby grant unto the said Mortgagee his heirs and assigns all that Farm or Tract of land situated in the Third Election District of Cecil County aforesaid on the West side of the public road from Fair Hill to Elkton and on the North side of the road from Carter’s Mill to the aforesaid road containing sixty nine acres of Land more or less being the same property conveyed to the said Robert W Plummer by the said Samuel J Arbuckle and wife, by deed bearing even date herewith and the same property conveyed to the said Samuel J Arbuckle by Samuel J Arbuckle, Daniel T Arbuckle and others Executors of Mary S Arbuckle by deed dated the 14th day of May in year nineteen hundred and fifteen and recorded in Liber CK, No 10, Folio 48 etc, one of the Land Record Books of Cecil County aforesaid Excepting and Reserving all that Tract or Parcel of Land part of same lying on the South side of the road from Carter’s Mill to the Fair Hill road, containing seven Acres and one Rood of Land more or less on which the said Samuel J Arbuckle now resides. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That if the said Mortgagor Robert W Plummer ___ heirs, executors or administrators shall pay to the said Mortgagee Samuel J Arbuckle ___ executors, administrators or assigns, the said mortgage debt or sum of Five Thousand Dollars on or before the Sixteenth day of October AD, nineteen hundred and seventeen and shall in the meantime pay the interest on said sum of money semi-annually from the date hereof, and shall do and perform all and singular the convenants(sic) and agreements hereinafter on the part of the said Mortgagor Robert W Plummer contained, then this mortgage shall be void. AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That if the said Mortgagor his heirs, executors or administrators, shall make default in the payment, when due, of said mortgage debt, or in the payment, when due, of any semi-annual installment of interest thereon, or in the performance of any convenants(sic) or agreement hereinafter on the part of the said Mortgagor contained, that in either case it shall be lawful for the said Mortgagee his executors, administrators or assigns, or for Henry M McCullough, of Cecil County aforesaid his or their attorney to sell the property hereby mortgaged by public auction to the highest bidder for cash, or upon such terms of credit as may be agreed upon by the parties hereto, their representatives or assigns, after giving at least three weeks’ previous public notice by advertisement inserted in some newspaper printed or published in Cecil County aforesaid, and such other notice as to him, her or them, may seem proper, if any, of the time, place, manner and terms of sale; and to apply the proceeds of said sale in the first place to the payment of all expenses attending said sale, including the same commissions to the party making said sale as would be allowed in case said property should be sold, instead, by a trustee appointed by a decree of the Circuit Court for Cecil County, in Equity, upon a bill filed in said Court to compel payment of said mortgage debt, together with a solicitor’s fee of ten dollars and a counsel fee of Thirty dollars, then to the payment of all sums owing under the provisions of this mortgage whether the same shall have then matured or not; and the residue, if any, to pay to the said mortgagor, Robert W Plummer or to whoever may be legally entitled to receive the same; provided that should said property be lawfully advertised for sale under the above power and a bond be filed as required by law by the party authorized to make said sale, and the said property should not be sold because of the request of the said mortgagor, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, or because of payment of the mortgage debt, the party so advertising shall be entitled to receive but one-half of said commissions. And the said mortgager Robert W Plummer, for himself ___ heirs, executors and administrators, hereby covenants grants and agrees to and with the said mortgagee his executors, administrators and assigns, that he will pay the said sum of Five Thousand Dollars on or before the Sixteenth day of October AD, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as above provided; that he will pay the interest on said sum of money semi-annually from the date hereof, at the rate of five per cent per annum; that he will pay as they fall due all taxes, assessments, public dues and charges which may be levied by law upon the property hereby mortgaged; that he will during the continuance of this mortgage keep the buildings and improvements upon the property hereby mortgaged insured against loss by fire in some insurance company or companies to be approved by said mortgagee for a sum not less than Four Thousand Dollars that he will assign the policy or policies of insurance to the said mortgagee as collateral security for the payment of said mortgage debt and that should default be made in the payment when due of any installment of taxes assessments and dues aforesaid, or in the payment when due of any premium or assessment on said policy or policies of insurance and the said mortgagee his executors, administrators or assigns in h__ or their pleasure and discretion should pay the same, the sum or sums so paid with interest thereon shall be a lien on the property hereby mortgaged as fully as though included in the first instance in the mortgage debt itself. In witness whereof the said mortgagors have hereunto set their hands and seals. Robert W Plummer Leta M Plummer Attest: B Bladen Craycroft, Jr STATE OF MARYLAND, Cecil County, SS: I hereby certify that on this Sixteenth day of October, AD, nineteen hundred and fifteen before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace of the said state in and for said county, personally appeared the above-named Robert W Plummer and Leta M Plummer his wife and did each acknowledge the aforegoing mortgage to be their respective act and deed. B Bladen Craycroft, Jr, JP STATE OF MARYLAND, Cecil County, To-Wit: I HEREBY CERTIFY, That on this 16th day of October in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Cecil County aforesaid, personally appeared Samuel J Arbuckle and made oath in due form of law that the consideration named in the aforesaid mortgage is true and bona fide as therein set forth. B Bladen Craycroft, Jr, JP Recorded October 16th, 1915, and Examined, Per Cecil Kirk, Clerk Delivered to Henry M McCullough, Esq, December 2nd, 1915. I hereby release the within(?) and aforegoing Mortgage Witness my hand and seal this seventeenth day of April, in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen Catherine M Arbuckle Executrix of Samuel J Arbuckle, deceased Witness: C S Peacock, Clerk of Circuit Court, for Cecil County See the following Web site for more info on Samuel J Arbuckle and relatives http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pda/wc_toc.htm