Deed between Mary L. STEELE and George P. PETERESON (1904), Cecil Co., MD

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                                   Peterson Farm

Information keystroked by Arthur Craig Mizner February 2003 from the official 
Cecil County, MD documents on file. There is a second deed for the PA portion. 
Style and format is as on the original document.

The George Peter and Selena Augusta (Borland) Peterson 111 acres farm was 
located in South West Chester County, Pennsylvania and North East Cecil county 
Maryland.

                          The 3 November 1904 Deed Reads

THIS DEED. Made this Third day of November, 1904, by Mary L. Steel, Widow, of 
Newark, Delaware, grantor, and George P. Peterson, of Cecil County, Maryland, 
Grantee.

WITNESSETH, That in consideration of the sum of Four thousand Dollars, paid her 
by the said George P. Peterson, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and 
said grantor does hereby grant and convey unto the said grantee, in fee simple, 
the following piece or parcel of land, lying and being in the Forth election 
District of Cecil County, aforesaid, and described as follows:  

Being all that tract of land, with the improvements thereon, on which the said 
George P. Peterson now resides, bounded on the North by the Mason and Dixon 
Line, on the West by the New London – Elkton road, on the South by lands of the 
heirs of Winfield Scott, and on the East by the lands of Joseph Mathias, 
containing about Ninety Six Acres of land, be the same more or less. Being the 
same property mentioned in a deed from William Young, Trustee, to the above 
grantor, bearing date the 1st  day of May. 1885, and recorded among the Land 
Records of Cecil County, in Liber J. A. D., No. 10, Folio 137, etc., to which 
said deed, and the deeds and paper there-mentioned, reference is hereby made for 
a more complete and accurate description of the premises hereby intended to be 
conveyed.

Witness my hand and Seal this 3rd day of November, 1904.
                                    Mary L. Stell.  (SEAL)
Test:  Jno. S. Strahorn
       State of Maryland
            Cecil County, Sct:
                              I hereby certify that on this 3rd day of November, 
1904, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the peace of the said State, in 
and for the said County, personally appeared the above named Mary L. Steel, and 
acknowledged the aforegoing instrument of writing to be her act and deed.
                                    W. H. May, J. P.
  Recorded November 4th, 1904, and examined,
                                                Per Manly Drennen, Clerk
Mailed to George P. Peterson. December 23nd 1904.