Prince George's County Deed for land purchased by Michael J. Tighe 1899

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THIS DEED, Made this twenty second day of August, in the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-nine, by Frederick Dallam, of Prince George's County, in
the State of Maryland, Trustee as hereinafter set forth--
WHEREAS, by a decree of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, In
Equity, dated the sixth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and
ninety-nine, and passed in a cause in said Court depending, wherein Michael
J. Tighe and others were plaintiffs and Mary A. H. Fogerty and others were
defendants, the above named Frederick Dallam was duly appointed trustee
with authority to sell the real estate in the proceedings in said cause
mentioned.

AND WHEREAS, after having given bond and complied with all the other
requisites of the decree, the said trustee did, on the first day of July,
in the said year, sell the property hereinafter described to Michael J.
Tighe, at public auction, for the sum of two thousand and ten dollars,
($2010.00) which said sale has been duly reported to and ratified by said
Court, and the purchase money fully paid to the said trustee.

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS DEED WITNESSETH, that in consideration of the premises
and the sum of one dollar, the said Frederick Dallam, Trustee as aforesaid,
does hereby grant and convey unto the said Michael J. Tighe all the right
and title of all the parties to the aforesaid cause, in and to, -All that
tract, piece or parcel of ground and premises, situate and lying in Prince
George's County aforesaid, being a part of a tract of land called More's
Prosperity, it being a part of the same land which was allotted to Henry
Snowden in the division of the real estate of his father, the late Nicholas
Snowden, and particularly described as follows:

BEGINNING for the same at the end of the twentieth line of Ephriam
Ploughman's part of said land at a stone now planted on the South side of
the Montgomery Road leading to Laurel Factory, and running with said road,
as corrected, with one-half degree allowance for variation, North,
seventy-one and one-half degrees West, fifty-two perches; North, sixty-nine
degrees West, ten perches; North, fifty-eight degrees West, fourteen
perches; North, sixty-four and one-half degrees West, twenty-seven perches;
North, fifty-two and one-half degrees West twelve and one-half perches to a
stone at Putman's Land, formerly Arthur P. Ridgeleys'; then, with his
lines, South, thirty-one degrees West, nineteen perches to a stone; South,
nineteen degrees East, one hundred and sixty-nine perches to a stone; then
leaving said land and running North, sixty-three and three quarter degrees
East, one hundred and ten perches to a stone; then North, twenty-four and
one-half degrees West, eighty-seven and one-half perches to the beginning,
containing eighty-seven and one-half acres of land, more or less.

TOGETHER with the improvements thereon, and the rights and appurtenances
thereto belonging or appertaining.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above granted property unto the said Michael J.
Tighe, his heirs and assigns, forever in fee simple.

WITNESS my hand and seal:

TEST:
Wm St.Ione (?) (<<these names are in handwriting>>) 
Frederick Dallam, Trustee...)SEAL(STATE OF MARYLAND, CITY OF BALTIMORE)  

TO WIT:
I HEREBY CERTIFY That on this Twenty-Second day of August, in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, before the subscriber, a Notary Public of
the State of Maryland, residing in Baltimore City, personally appeared
Frederick Dallam, Trustee above named and acknowledged the aforegoing deed
to be his act.

WITNESS my hand and notarial seal:
...........Wm St Ione (?) (signed), Notary Public.
(His embossed red seal is here) 
(It has two $1.00 stamps and one 50 cent stamp)