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From: "Alice Hawrilenko" <>
Subject: Re: [MDWASHIN] Dower Question-Catherine???
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:48:23 -0400
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Thank you so much! I just e-mailed them. Unfortunately I read your
information about the collection after I got home. Life's in the timing I
guess! :-) Had I read it the night before I would have arranged for one more
night's stay in the area. I just discovered they were open this morning!
Alice
----- Original Message -----
From: "Beverly Peoples" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 3:12 PM
Subject: RE: [MDWASHIN] Dower Question-Catherine???


> Alice, the info you want can be found in the Arthur Tracey Collection at
the
> Historical Society of Carroll County 410-848-6494. I wish you could go
back
> and visit there because I'm certain you can piece together all the land
and
> ownership that you are interested in with a bit of research time. The
> Collection has index cards of all tracts and also cards on all surnames of
> early landowners. Then there are cross reference numbers to the plats and
> maps that you can also get copies of from the Collection. Since you can't
> return right now, write to them and request lookups and copies on all the
> names and tracts that you have. Also request copies of their Washington
> County map with many of the tracts written in. In the collection are
surveys
> of all these places you mention. I found that Collection to be the most
> amazing thing I've ever stumbled across. Somehow, not many people
> researching in Washington County seen to know this collection is available
> over in Carroll. It's there because the Traceys lived there but they
> researched all the area that was the early Prince George County (which of
> course includes Frederick and Washington). I guess you know where
> Friendship and Keep Triest are located. They are platted on one of the
maps
> I got when I visited there. Additionally, I'd request index cards on
others
> of the Keedy family in case they don't have Lodwick. As you know there
will
> be many.
>
> I don't think it'll interest you but I have a deed where Priscilla Dean
and
> her daughter Lucy John sold a tract "Deans Purchase" at "Hunt the Hare" to
> Daniel Gedding in 1794. I'm pretty sure Daniel was one of the Keedys. But
> he is probably too late for you.
>
> I too am about 8 hours away and want to return and search some more.
>
> Beverly Dean Peoples
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alice Hawrilenko [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 1:30 PM
> To:
> Subject: [MDWASHIN] Dower Question-Catherine???
>
> Hello!
> I have just returned from a very productive trip to Hagerstown during the
> course of which this list's advice was invaluable. Thank you. I have been
> totally unsuccessful in finding a marriage record for someone I think may
be
> the ancestor I'm seeking. According to a deed of sale Catharine Keedy,
wife
> of Lodowick Keedy, signs away her right of dower. In attempting to find a
> marriage record for Catharine and Lodowick I have searched all the names I
> found on 4 separate land deeds I found yesterday. The names involved are
> Funk, Beckly, Grim, and Farr. The land is located in the Sharpsburg area
and
> according to the deed in question the land is called, "Part of Friendship
> being part of a tract of land called Keeptriest"....beginning with the
tract
> called Friendship and the end of the third line of a tract of land called
> "Parker Hale" etc. It contained 103 acres with buildings. From what I can
> ascertain Keedy (Gutting with umlaut over the u and the i) came into the
> property on or b!
> efore 1787. If anyone recognizes who the original owner of this tract of
> land might be I would appreciate the info...as usual not enough time down
> there and while I answered 100 questions I came back with 100 more. Again,
> thanks for all your help.
> Alice
> PS This is an 8 hour drive for me so I can't get there often but it is
> through some of the most beautiful country anywhere. Researching Keedy,
> Carrigan, Wall, Finneran, Wynne, Carter, McClafferty, Breen, Whitely,
> Whitley, Cook
>
>
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