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John Mobberly 10.97 A Page £7.8.5 £4.6.8 Nov 28 1729
Heirs (5 sons, all married men): John, James, Edward, William, Thomas Mobberly.
Administratrix: Susanna Mobberly (alias Susanna Bolton)
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1702-1709 Prince George’s County, Maryland Land Records Liber C, [Elise Greenup Jourdan]; Folio 208a: Deed of Gift (23March1701 court)
Item: John Moberly, Sr., of Prince George's County gives the following five sons gifts and their freedom to work for themselves at age 16:
To: John Moberly one red cow called Goulde and one sow shoat
To: James Mobberly one pied heifer called May, one sow shoat, and one dark colored horse colt
To: William Moberly one black heifer called Voluntine, one sow shoat & a dark colored gelding
To: Edw'd Mobberly one black 2 year old heifer called Prim and one sow shoat
To: Thomas Moberly one black while calf called Hart and on sow shoat
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Contributed by Chad Olivent
Deed, MD Hall of Records, IB5, Page 221/222.
Thomas Mobberly {This indenture made this fifteenth day of July Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and seventy five between Thomas Rezin Mobberly} Mobberly son of Will'm of the Province of Georgia and Rezin Mobberly of Anne Arundel County in the Province of Maryland of the other part witnesseth that whereas a certain John Mobberly Senior late of Prince Georges County in the Province of Maryland & deceased grandfather to the said parties did by a Deed or Instrument of writing having date on or about the tenth day of May One thousand seven hundred and eighteen give & grant to four sons namely James Mobberly William Mobberly Edward Mobberly & Thomas Mobberly a Piece or parcel of land called Mobberly's Purchase being part of a tract called Neal's Delight situated lying and being in Ann Arundel County aforesaid said to contain two hundred acres more or less to be equally divided between his said sons share and Share alike and each part to be held by them & their Heirs Males of their Bodies respectively and lawfully begotten and to be begotten for Ever and in default of such male Heirs in any or either of his said sons and that if any should die without the same then their part or Dividend to fall to the next eldest of his said four sons & their male heirs as aforesaid and so on from one to Another for ever as reference being had to the said deed may more at lays?[last??] appear A. whereas the said James Mobberly and the Male Heirs of his body lawfully begotten are all deceased the said Thomas Mobberly son of William is lawfully and rightly Seized in fee of one hundred acres of the said Land one half of the said grant now therefore the said Thomas Mobberly son of William for and in consideration of the sum of eighteen pounds fifteen shillings current money to himself in hand paid at or before the sealing and Delivery of these presents the receipt whereof he doth hereby Acknowledge hath granted bargained sold aliened and Confirmed and doth by these presents for himself his heirs and assignd give grant bargain sell Alien & Confirm unto the said Rezin Mobberly his heirs and assigns for ever all that piece or parcel of land contained in the following Metes and Bounds to wit beginning at a stone where formerly stood a bounded Hickory the beginning of the said tract of land said to contain two hundred acres and running thence North one hundred and sixty perches thence west one hundred and eight perches with the original lines thence south one and one half degrees east to Patuxent River then with and binding on said River to the beginning containing and set out for one hundred acres of land more or less. To have and to hold the said bargained premises free of all incumbrances whatsoever with all and singular the Premises Edifices Improvements Profits and __Appurtenances thereunto belonging unto him the said Rezin Mobberly his Heirs and Assigns for ever and to his and their only proper use and behoof and the said Thomas Mobberly son of William doth hereby for himself and his Heirs and Assigns promise grant and agree to & with the said Rezin Mobberly his Heirs and Assigns that he the said Thomas Mobberly son of William his Heirs and Assigns shall and will from time to time and at all times hereafter make do Accounts? Suffer and Acknowledge any further deed of Conveyance for the better securing? or and making the said Land and Premises to the said Rezin Mobberly his Heirs and Assigns for Ever as shall Reasonably be advised or required & that the said Thomas Mobberly son of William his Heirs and Assigns shall and will from time to time and at all times hereafter for ever warrant and defend the said Land and Premises to the said Rezin Mobberly his Heirs and assigns for ever against all & all Manner of Person or Persons claiming or to Clain anyin anyim any Right in Title Interest or property of or in the same or any part thereof In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day and year before written. his Signed Sealed and Delivered} H. Ridgeley Thomas TM Mobberly of Wm SEAL in Presence of }John Briggs mark [mark had crossbar of T superimposed on left leg of M]
On the back of the foregoing Deed was this endorsed Viz. On the fifteenth day of July One thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Five the within named Thomas Mobley son of William personally appeared on the within named Land before us two officers Lord ..___. Proprietarys Justices of the Peace for Ann Arundel County and Acknowledged the within Instrument to be his Act and Deed and the Land & Premises therein mentioned to be the Right and Estate of the within Rezin Mobberly his Heirs & Assigns for ever that the same gave him possession therof H. Ridgely John Briggs Received the same day the sum of Eighteen Pounds Fifteen Shillings of currency the Consideration within mentioned of the said Rezin Mobberly and in the Presence of his H. Ridgeley Thomas TM Mobberly of Wm John Briggs mark[as described above] Recorded July 17, 1775[4]
Supporting Affidavit:
Prince William, VA At the request of Thomas Mobly personally appeared before me the subscriber one of his Majesty`s Justices of the Peace for the said County Richard Higgins aged upwards of ninety years & made oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that the said requester Thomas Mobly was born in lawful wedlock that did this Deponent see the Rites of Matrimony celebrated between William Mobly & Sethy Anderson by the Rev. Wm Alexander Scott decd then Rector of our Wharton?(Overwharton) Parish in the County of Stafford & that better than twelve months after Marriage the said Sethy was delivered of twins which twins was named Thomas & James that this deponent thinks James did not live above six months and further this deponent says that the requester Thomas Mobly the surviving son many years ago removed with his father & mother from Stafford County to North Carolina Given under my hand this 9th day of May 1770 William Carr Virginia Prince William County I John Graham Clerk of the Court of the said County do hereby certify that William Carr Gentleman before whom the within probate was taken was at the time of taking the same and still is one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid and to all probates by him taken in? full faith and Credit and ought to be given in Justice Court and theront? SEAL In Testimony whereof I Have hereunto affixed the seal of the said County this 20th day June 1775 John Graham, Clk Court Recorded July 7, 1775
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1697 - 1775 (32 years)