Henry James W. Dashiell

Henry James W. Dashiell
(1812-1892)

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Henry James W. Dashiell

Born: 18 Jun 1812, Somerset Co., MD ¹ ² ³ ⁴
Marriage (1): Hannah B. Willing on 06 Mar 1835 in Somerset Co., MD
Died: 03 Apr 1892, Wicomico Co., MD ⁵
Buried: Abt 06 Apr 1892, Denson-Dashiell Family Graveyard, Wicomico Co., MD

Deed for land, Rebecca Polk from Henry J. Dashiell, filed 24th August 1880 and examined and delivered to Rebecca Polk Dec. 20th 1880, S.G. Toadvine CLK
This deed made this 24th day of August ~ in the year Eighteen Hundred and Eighty by Henry J. Dashiell of Wicomico County in the State of Maryland. Witnesseth that for the sum of Seventy four dollars and twenty five cents, the said Henry J. Dashiell doth grant unto Rebecca Polk a tract or parcel of land contained in the following metes and bounds courses and distances adjoining H.J. Dashiell's land on the North, J. Huffington's on the East, the Jones land on the South, and J. Morgan's on the West. Beginning at a pine stump on the county road running thence one degree by and with Huffington's land 23 poles, thence South 68 degrees west with the old line 25 poles, thence North 64.45 West with the old line 3 ½ poles, thence North 57.15 West with the old line 21 poles, thence North 47.30 East to the North side of the county road 8 ½ poles, thence South 80. East with the county road 11 poles, and thence South 74 East to the beginning. Containing Six and three sixteenths acres of land, more or less, being a part of the land known as the Bounds land, situated in Trappe District, Wicomico County, Maryland, in fee simple.
Witness my hand and seal.
Test. (illegible) Henry J. Dashiell (seal)
ON REVERSE:
State of Maryland Wicomico County to wit
I hereby certify that on the 24th day of August in the year 1880, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace of the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Henry J. Dashiell and acknowledged the foregoing deed to be his act.
(illegible - Yeccady?) Fooks, J.P.
Anno Domini 1880 August 24th. There was delivered unto me the subscribed aforegoing deed in order to be enrolled among the Land Records of Wicomico County which said deed together with the acknowledgment thereof thereon endorsed is accordingly enrolled among the same records in liber S.P.T. No. 3, folio 487 on the day and year aforesaid.
S. P. Toadvine, Clerk

Henry married Hannah B. Willing on 06 Mar 1835 in Somerset Co., MD. (Hannah B. Willing was born on 12 Nov 1813 in Somerset Co., MD,⁶ ⁷ ⁸ died on 03 May 1876 in Wicomico Co., MD and was buried about 06 May 1876 in Denson-Dashiell Family Graveyard, Wicomico Co., MD.)

1 1860 MD Census, Listed as Henry J. Dashiell, age 48, in Trappe, Somerset Co., MD.

2 1850 MD Census, Listed as Henry J. Dashiell, age 38, in Trappe, Somerset Co., MD.

3 1870 MD Census, Listed as Henry J. Dashiell, age 57, in Trappe, Wicomico Co., MD.

4 1880 MD Census, Listed as Henry J. Dashiell, age 67, in Trappe, Wicomico Co., MD.

5 Bible Records of Levin Morris (1782-1841), transcribed by L. Paul Morris, 2004..

6 1860 MD Census, Listed as Hannah B. Dashiell, age 46, in Trappe, Somerset Co., MD.

7 1850 MD Census, Listed as Hannah Dashiell, age 36, in Trappe, Somerset Co., MD.

8 1870 MD Census, Listed as Hannah Dashiell, age 56, in Trappe, Wicomico Co., MD.

Henry James W. Dashiell

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