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Abstracts of The Debt Books of Maryland Cecil And Durham Counties New Genealogy

Abstracts of The Debt Books of Maryland Cecil And Durham Counties New Genealogy

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    Abstracts of  the Debt Books of the Provincial Land Office of Maryland: Cecil County & Durham  County
    Liber 18: 1734; Liber 54: 1738-1759; Liber 18: 1739, 1749 & 1754  Liber 19: 1755, 1756-57, 1758, 1760, 1761 & 1766
    Jr. Vernon L. Skinner
    Softbound    volume  totaling
    368
    pages. Book  is in new condition.  Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
    Cecil County, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, was created from      Kent County, Maryland, in 1764. Durham County, Maryland, existed from only      1669 to 1672. The territory of what was Durham County, Maryland now occupies      the southern half of Kent County, Delaware, and northern half of Sussex      County, Delaware This new volume is the latest in the ongoing series
    Abstracts      of the Debt Books of the Provincial Land Office of Maryland
    , by Vernon      L. Skinner.
    The Provincial Land Office of Maryland was responsible for      distributing land from 1634 to 1777 on behalf of the Lord Proprietor. The      Lord Proprietor's rent rolls and the debt books, the means by which the Lord      Proprietor kept track of the rents due him, both commence in 1715 (though      some are no longer extant). The surviving rent rolls consist of entries for      each tract of land patented, the name of the person for whom the land was      originally surveyed, the present owner, acreage, and rent. Alienations, or      subsequent sales and leases of the piece of land, are also included. The      debt books' great value is that they enable the researcher to track land      ownership over various years in cases of intestate estates, land inherited      by women, and land that is not specified in a will.
    Mr. Skinner's 30th volume in this series pertains to Cecil      and Durham counties and spans the period 1734-1766, with breaks for the      years 1735-1737 and 1762-1765. The information in this series is presented      in tabular form: liber and folio citation, with any pertinent date; name of      the person paying the taxes; and name of the tract of land and amount of      acreage.
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