\osborne\md\somerset.txt Updated: 1/22/2014
Somerset Co., MD Deeds
AZ/40. 19 May 1732 rec. 29 May 1732; John Jenefer Osborne of Accomack Co.,
VA to Thomas Purnell of the same county; "and the said Robt. Richerson by
his Last will and Testament in wrighting deed devise and give unto Capt.
John Osborn of Somerset County a certain part or parcell of the aforsd Land
Called mount Ephraim by Estimation Seven hundred acres bound as by the said
Last will and Testament will appear Recorded being thereunto had and the
said Capt. Osborn by his Last will and Testament in wrightin did devise and
give unto a Certain James Duncan a Certain part or parcell of the aforesd
Land as also by the same will did devise and give unto his Daughter Martha
Osbourn the Remaining part of the aforesaid Land by the Name of his
Plantation Warter Million Point the Said Martha who Intermarryed with
Parker Selby who died without making any Dispossition of the aforesd Land
Leaving Isue a son to witt Danl. Selby who by his Last will and Testament
Devise and give his dwelling Plantation he then dwelt on Comonly known by
the Name of Warter Million Point with all that part of the Land as f-----
the Great Branch beyond Barnetts house to a Child that his wife was then
Pregnant with and in Case the Said Child should dye then the Bequest was to
his wife, but in such ambigous words or terms as renred the title to the
wife Somthing Precarious. Now this Indenture further witnesseth that the
aforesd John Jennifer Osborn Son and heir at law to the aforenamed Capt.
John Osbourn late of Somerset County deceased for and in consideration of
the som of thirty five pounds Currt. Mony to him in hand paid by the within
named Thos. Purnell...". (SLFHL 0014365)