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From: "Family Tree Bookshop" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Donnock Dennis, Beverly, Morumsco Creek/Pokomoke River
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 13:42:43 -0400
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Dear John:
Les and I have now completed the Land Records for Worcester from
1742-1801 and are in the middle of doing the same for Somerset from the
beginning to 1800, so if possible, you might want to consult what Les has
done--unlike Dryden, we havent omitted any libers of the records.
<<<Neil>>>
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Subject: Re: [LDR] Donnock Dennis, Beverly, Morumsco Creek/Pokomoke River


> In a message dated 5/2/2004 11:16:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
> > On 8 August 1679 Henry Smith and Anne his wife sold to Donnack Dennis,
> > planter for 12,000 pounds of tobacco, 400 acres now called Dennis
Purchase, part
> > of Smiths Folly of 1000 acres granted to William Smith on the south side
of
> > the Pocomoke. Smith also sold to Dennis on 10 March 1687/8 200 acres of
Smiths
> > Folly.
> >
> > Reads like Donnock Dennis ended up with a total of 600 acres and 400
was on
> > the south side of the Pocomoke. I neglected to note which side of the
> > Pocomoke the latter 200 acres was on.
>
> Well, SMITHS FOLLY was, neverthless, on the north side of the River on the
> east side of the mouth of Dividing Creek. Actually described as 1000
acres "in
> and on the *west* side of the Pocomoke" in its original survey for William
> Smith ("carpenter, of St. Mary's County") on 13 Mar 1663/4 (patented 18
Sep
> 1665).
>
> "West" here describes the aspect of its first bounder, an oak on the "west
> bank" of the Pocomoke as it turns south at 36/8/28N, 75/30/55W (my
estimate);
> the tract then hugs the River southerly and westerly to Dividing Creek,
then
> meanders up Dividing Creek to the starting latitude and cuts across the
landscape
> to the first point. See MD Patents 8, folio 381. The actual survey
extent
> was clarified only by subsequent resurveys; my rendition, which seems
supported
> by the later surveyors, is that the original covered only about 800 ac.
>
> Some other Rent Roll entries for conveyances (as incomplete as the RRs
are):
>
> Rent Rolls Volume 9, folio 61, item 5: "700 ac in poss. of Donnock Dennis,
> Sr., 300 of John Dennis"
>
> 07 Jun 1710 (200 ac) from Donnock Dennis, Sr. et ux. to Donnock Dennis
> 05 Mar 1743/4 (100 ac) from Robert Gibbs et ux. to Abraham Gibbs
> 04 Mar 1746/7 (100 ac) from William Dennis to Joseph Allen [as DENNISES
> PURCHASE]
> 09 Dec 1753 (2 ac) from John Scott to Rector, Vestrymen and Church Wardens
of
> Coventry Parish [as DENNISES PURCHASE]
> 20 Jan 1753 (0.75 ac) from John Scott to Angelo Atkinson [as NEW GLASGOW]
> 06 Jun 1753 (300 ac) from John Scott to Joseph Scott [part of DENNISES
> PURCHASE, part of DENNISES SECOND PURCHASE]
> 10 Mar 1761 (68 ac) from John Scott to Angelo Atkinson [as NEW GLASGOW]
> 09 May 1761 (100 ac) from Joseph Allen to John Scott [as DENNISES
PURCHASE]
>
> So the Dennis family was actively engaged with SMITHS FOLLY early on,
though
> the RRs don't quite tell the story. I don't have Dryden's Worcester
records
> here for what help it might give.
>
> It was involved and/or partitioned in five later patented surveys between
> 1747 and 1821.
>
> John Lyon
>
>
>
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