Release from Samuel HARRIS & James T McCULLOUGH, Trustee, to Mary Ann D 
WILLIAMSON (1870), Cecil Co., 
MD

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Release from Samuel HARRIS & James T McCULLOUGH, Trustee, to Mary Ann D 
WILLIAMSON (1870)

Cecil County Land Record Book, Liber DS, Number 3, Folio 458

This Deed made this fifth day of April in the year Eighteen hundred and seventy 
by Samuel Harris and James T McCullough.  Witnesseth, Whereas Matthew Borland 
and Amanda Borland his wife by their deed of Mortgage dated the twenty fifth day 
of March in the year Eighteen hundred and sixty four conveyed to James Mackey 
certain Real Estate in said Mortgage mentioned situate and lying in Cecil County 
for the purpose of securing the payment of the sum of one thousand eight hundred 
and seventy five dollars, and whereas afterwards on the seventh day of October 
in the year Eighteen hundred and sixty four the said James Mackey assigned the 
said Mortgage and the Real estate therein mentioned to James T McCullough 
trustee of Benjamin W Harris, and whereas the said James T McCullough as 
Administrator of the said Benjamin W Harris, afterwards assigned the same to one 
Samuel Harris, and Whereas the said Matthew Borland and wife have sold a part of 
the land mentioned in said deed of Mortgage to Mary Ann D Williamson of Cecil 
County as appears by their Deed bearing date the second day of April in the year 
Eighteen hundred and seventy, and Whereas the said Mary Ann D Williamson and the 
said Matthew Borland and wife are desirous of having the lein[sic] of said 
Mortgage removed from said land mentioned in said last mentioned Deed.  Now This 
Deed Witnesseth, that the said Samuel Harris and James T McCullough in 
consideration of the premises, and in consideration of the sum of six hundred 
dollars paid of said Mortgage debt, this day paid the said, grant unto the said 
Mary Ann D Williamson the said property mentioned and described in said deed 
from the said Matthew Borland and wife to the said Mary Ann D Williamson so far 
as may be necessary to release the said property from the said Mortgage.
Witness our hands and seals.
Samuel Harris
J T McCullough, Adm of B W Harris
Attest
The words “the said James Mackey” being first interlined
J R Brown
State of Maryland
Cecil County, to wit
I hereby certify that on this fifth day of April in the year Eighteen hundred 
and seventy, before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for and 
within the state and county aforesaid personally appeared Samuel Harris and 
James T McCullough administrator of Benjamin W Harris and did each acknowledge 
the foregoing deed to be their act.  
J R Brown J P
Recorded April 5th 1870 and examined
Delivered August 1, 1870 to Jos R Jeffries                        Per David 
Scott Clk



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