Deed from Walter& Emma ARMSTRONG to Matthew BORLAND (1864), Cecil Co., MD Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Doug Arbuckle Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ********************************************************* Deed from Walter& Emma ARMSTRONG to Matthew BORLAND (1864) Cecil County Land Record Book, Liber WHR, Number 7, Folio 221 This Deed made this twenty fourth day of March eighteen hundred and sixty four by Walter Armstrong and Emma Armstrong his wife of Cecil County in the State of Maryland. Witnesseth that in Consideration one thousand five hundred and sixty six dollars and sixty nine cents the said Walter Armstrong and Emma Armstrong his wife do grant unto Matthew Borland in fee, all that tract or parcel of land and premises contained in the following courses and distances situate in Cecil County aforesaid the first lot Begins for the same at a stone set in the side of the Road to Christianna nine feet south of a poplar tree and running along the side of said Road south eighty six and a quarter degrees west thirty eight and a half perches to a stone at the corner of Jane McCreary’s land thence North six and a half degrees west fifty two perches to John Mackies land thence south eighty one and three quarters degrees east forty four perches to a stone at the corner of lands of Elizabeth Sutton and from thence in a straight line to the place of Beginning containing twelve acres of land more or less the second lot Begins at a stone a corner of land formerly Abraham B Dobbs and in the line of John Mackies land and running thence along said Dobbs land south forty four perches to a stone on the edge of Christianna road thence north eighty seven and a half degrees east nineteen and a quarter perches to a stone thence north thirty nine perches to said Markies[sic] land thence along the same north eight and a half degrees west ninteen[sic] and three quarters perches to the beginning Containing five acres of Land more or less being the same tract of land which the said Armstrong purchased of the said John Mackey as per deed bearing date the ninth day of September 1856 and recorded in Liber HHM No 7 folio 485 etc one of the Land Record Books of Cecil County aforesaid. Witness our hands and seals. Walter Armstrong Emma Armstrong Test Andrew M Russell John W Ewing State of Maryland Cecil County Sct I hereby certify that on this twenty fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty four before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Cecil County personally appeared Walter Armstrong and Emma Armstrong his wife and did each acknowledge the foregoing deed to be their respective act. John W Ewing J P Recorded on the 15th day of June 1864 and Examined Delivered to Matthew Borland April 5th 1870 Per Chas H Haines Clk See the following Web site for more info on Matthew Borland and relatives http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pda