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DEED FROM JAMES KINGSBURY AND WIFE TO JAMES AND JOHN KINGSBURY. THE HOPE.
TO all Christian People to Whom these presents shall come, Greeting.
Know ye, that we, James Kingsbury of Calvert County, Province of Maryland, Doctor of Physick, and Elizabeth my wife, formerly the Relict of Richard Evans of the said County, deceased, out of love we bear our loving sons James and John Kingsbury, do grant ... 300 acres of land, ... The half part of a parcell of Land called, The Hope. Lying in Cecill County, on the north side of Octoraro creek, on the west side of a River called Susquehannah River, being laid out for Richard Hall, As Hall's Lott, a parcell of Land the said Hall had by assignment from George Yates, the nineteenth day of June 1678, as appears upon Record, which said land, the aforesaid Richard Hall, deceased, did by his last will and testament give and bequeath to his daughter Elizabeth Hall and her heirs forever, formerly the Relict of Richard Evans, but now the wife of the said James Kingsbury ... To be equally divided among them as near as may be, the Elder brother to have the first choice. To them the said James and John Kingsbury ...
Signed and sealed,
James Kingsbury
Elizabeth Kingsbury.
[Annapolis Deeds, Lib. P L, No. 6, 1724-31, fol. 156.]
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[Last Will and Testament of James Kingsbury, Calvert County, Maryland. Rec: 2 Feb 1724. Proved: 25 Jan 1726. Names wife Elizabeth who receives entire estate. Wit. John Thomas, Thomas Brook, Richard Stevens.]
