Mortgage Between John W & Kate BRISTOW and Rebecca L POOLE, Mary E BIDDLE & 
Olivia CAVENDER (1883); Cecil County, MD

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Cecil County Land Record Book, Liber JAD, Number 5, Folio 568

This Mortgage, made this sixteenth day of June in the year Eighteen Hundred and 
eighty three by John W Bristow and Kate Bristow his wife.  Witnesseth, That in 
consideration of the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, now owing unto 
Rebecca L Poole, Mary E Biddle and Olivia Cavender by the said John W Bristow 
and for and in consideration of the aforesaid sum of money the said John W 
Bristow & wife doth grant unto the said Rebecca L Poole, Mary E Biddle and 
Olivia Cavender all that Certain house and lot situated on the border of 
Chesapeake City in Cecil County Md, north of the Chesapeake & Del Canal.  
Beginning as a boundary at a stone at the intersection of the north side of 
Biddle street with the west side of Union Street and running thence binding on 
the westward side of Union Street N 2 1/2° W 120 ft to a stone thence parallel 
with the northward side of Biddle Street S 85° W 55 ft to a stone thence 
parallell[sic] with the westward side of Union Street S 2 1/2° E 120 feet to the 
northward side of Biddle Street to a stone thence binding on the northward side 
of Biddle Street W 85° E 55 feet to the place of Beginning.  Containing 6600 
square feet more or less being the farm house and lot which was conveyed unto 
the said John W Bristow by Rebecca L Poole, Mary E Biddle and Olivia Cavender by 
their Deed bearing date the 21st day of March 1883 and to be recorded in one of 
the Land Record Books of Cecil County.  The Condition of this Mortgage is such 
that if the above mentioned John W Bristow & wife shall pay unto the said 
Rebecca L Poole, Mary E Biddle and Olivia Cavender the above mentioned sum of 
money together with interest thereon from the date hereof on or before the 
Sixteenth day of June Eighteen Hundred and Eighty Five then this mortgage to be 
void and of none effect otherwise to be in full force and virtue.  Witness our 
hands and seals.
John W Bristow
Kate Bristow
Test
G F Christfield
State of Maryland
Cecil County, to wit:
On this 16th day of June 1883 before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace in 
and for the county and state aforesaid personally appeared John W Bristow and 
Kate Bristow his wife and did each acknowledge the aforegoing Mortgage to be 
their act.  And at the same time also personally appeared Rebecca L Poole, Mary 
E Biddle and Olivia Cavender and made oath that the Consideration in said 
Mortgage is true and bona fide as therein set forth.
G F Christfield, JP
Recorded June 26 1883 and Examined
Del’d to Irene Poole July 7 1884
Per Jas A Davis, Clk