Deed Between Mary E. BIDDLE and William KNIGHT (1880); Cecil County, MD

Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Doug Arbuckle [dougarbuckle@cox.net]

Copyright 2004.  All Rights Reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm
*********************************************************

Cecil County Land Record Book, Liber JAD, Number 1, Folio 448

This Deed made this twenty third day of October in the year eighteen hundred and 
Eighty, by me Mary E Biddle of Cecil County in the State of Maryland.  
Witnesseth, that in consideration of the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, 
paid me by William Knight, of Cecil County aforesaid, the receipt whereof is 
hereby acknowledged, I, the said Mary E Biddle do grant unto William Knight, his 
heirs and assigns, all that portion of the land whereof William R Biddle late of 
said County died seized and possessed lying and being in Sassafras Neck in Cecil 
County aforesaid, on the east side of the public road leading from Veazey’s Neck 
to the road leading from Earlesville to Hack’s Point, the portion hereby 
conveyed containing five acres more or less, and being bounded on the south and 
east by lands of the said William Knight, and on the north and west by lands of 
John E Leonard and by the public road first herein before mentioned, being part 
of the real estate devised to me the said Mary E Biddle by the last Will and 
testament of the said William R Biddle duly executed so as to pass real estate, 
dated on the twenty second day of October in the year eighteen hundred and 
seventy four, and recorded in the Office of Register of Wills for Cecil County 
aforesaid, in Liber F Volume 13 folio 218 etc.
Witness my hand and Seal.
Mary E Biddle
Test:
Geo R Vansant
State of Maryland
Cecil County, to wit:
I hereby certify that on this twenty third day of October in the year eighteen 
hundred and Eighty before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State 
of Maryland in and for Cecil County, aforesaid, personally appeared Mary E 
Biddle the above named grantor, and acknowledged the aforegoing deed to be her 
act.
Acknowledged before and Certified by
Geo R Vansant, JP
Recorded January 31, 1881 and Examined
Per James A Davis, Clerk