DORCHESTER COUNTY LAND RECORDS
 
 
No. 2 Old 18 8 Mar 1719 Levin Hicks, Gent to Hugh Handley, Planter "Levin's Chance" on the 
Chicamocomico adjacent to a tract called "Sector" containing 25 acres more or less
No. 5 Old 89,109 24 Nov 1696 Wm. Edmondson of Talbot Co., MD toManus Handley "Edmondson's Addition"
'Richard Caly" containing 100 A. more or less.Land at head of Cambridge Creek
No. 6 Old 80, 121, 129 1708 Hugh Handley "Anderson Point"
No. 12 Old 34 21 Nov 1744
Marmaduke Handley, of Dorchester Co. MD & Hannah, his wife
40 acres of "Handley's Adventure", being the easternmost part of 80 acres to Francis Carr 
No. 14 Old 635 9 Nov 1752 Valuation of lands of William Perry, child and orphan of Wm. Perry, late of Dorchester Co., deceased, now in possession of Alexander Frasher, Guardian Plantation where Charles
Handley lives called "Barnet's Purchase"  and part of "Doncaster".
No. 15 Old 422 4 Feb 1757 Francis Carr to Joseph Ennalls 40 acres of "Handley's Adventure"
No. 17 Old 413 10 Jun 1761 Thomas Handley to John LeCompte. part of "Handley's Adventure"
adjacent land called "Westminster" on the road from Francis Carr plantation to Joseph Kennerly's Mill containing 80 acres more or less.  40 acres conveyed hereby.
No. 18 Old 64 2 Mar 1762 Thomas Handley to John LeCompte, son of Philemon 25 acres "Levin's Chance"
adj. "Secter"
No. 18 Old 100 2 Feb 1762 Handy Handley to John LeCompte, son of William Part of "Handley's Regulation"
on Chickanacomaco River 142 acres.
No. 22 Old 218 25 Nov 1767 Handy Handley of Dorchester
Co., planter, to John LeCompte, son of William
Part of a tract of land called "Handleys Regulation" being all the vacant land included in a resurvey made by Handy Handley on the original tract called Handleys Regulation
containing 188 acres more or less.
No. 23 Old 400 left to Betsey LeCompte by
father John LeCompte
"Handley's Adventure"
No. 24 Old 204 Mary Brown Handley, spinster, to her son John Handley a negro girl called
Rachel, about nine years.
No. 2 NH 345 1783 John Owens to William Phillips 40 acres of Handley's Adventure given to John Owens by William Lecompte.
4 HD 431 11 Feb 1793 Michael Hall Bonwill of Kent Co. Delaware  to  Handy Handley, Sr. of Dorchester Co., MD Part of "Friends Assistance" near "Handleys Regulation"
and containing 40 acres more or less
24 HD 210 Clinton Handley and Sophia his wife to Levin Smith Part of tract of land on the road from Cabin Creek to
Vienna called "Norwick"
3 ER 538 21 Oct 1815 Clinton Handley and Sophia his wife to William Rawleigh
and Greenbury Raleigh
Lot in New Market.
5 ER 492 1 Jan 1819 Levin Travers to William Wrightson and Clinton Handley Negro Leah and her two children
5 ER 492 22 Apr 1819 Levin Travers to Clinton Handley Part of "Travers Second Mite" containing 171 acres.
8 ER 329 Sold to William Owings of
Tennessee (sold for James Hubbards debts of Joseph LeCompte)
"Handley's Adventure" 25 acres.
9 ER 139 18 Jun 1823 David Higgins of Dorchester Co. to James and Alexander Herring of the City of Baltimore Slaves

Witnesses:  Samuel LeCompte
Handy Handley

9 ER 480 3 Nov 1824 Aschsah Goldsborough, 
widow of Dr. Richard Goldsborough to James Thompson and Clinton Handley.
Dower interest in 317 acres at the head of Transquakin river, sold to Joseph Cummins by the said Dr. Richard Goldsborough
9 ER 514 Sarah Cummings and Robert Cummings of Ohio, children and heirs of Joseph Cummings, late of Dorchester Co., MD, deceased to James Thompson and Clinton Handley Lands sold by Dr. Richard Goldsborough to said Joseph Cummings near the head of the Transquakin River, on the road from Cambridge to Vienna, on the west side of James Thompson's plantation formerly called "Goldsboroughs Quarter",
containing 217 acres and part of"Ennalls Woodyard Regulated" containing 100 acres.
9 ER 15 1792 Notice concerning the death of Eliza Emory, wife of Charles Emory deceased, and her daughter Nancy. Mentions Sally Handley, who for a short time lived with the family of Charles Emory deceased.
10 ER 122 Brice J. Goldsborough (guardian for Elizabeth, William and Matilda Goldsborough, infants) to James Thompson and Clinton
Handley
Lands of Richard Goldsborough, deceased father of the infants.
10 ER 344 7 Jul 1826 Joseph K. Travers, Administrator DBN of Levin
Travers deceased to Clinton Handley of Dorchester Co.
Negro Josiah, aged 14 years
14 ER 407 18 Feb 1835 William W. Handley and Eliza his wife to Handy Handley Lands of Clinton Handley, deceased, on the road from Salem Meeting House to the drawbridge.
15 ER 189 6 Jul 1835 Henry Page, trustee, of Dorchester Co., to Jacob Howard of the same county Land of George W. Stephens deceased, near Middletown,
adj. land now owned by John W. LeCompte(formerly John Lecompte); also adj. land heretofore owned by Bartholomew Ennalls, now owned by Nathaniel E. Green and Susan Green his wife, daughter of the said B. Ennalls; also adj. land heretofore owned by John Noble and now owned by Jacob Howard;  being the same land devised by Last Will and 
Testament of Handy Handley, proved May 13, 1793, to Dr. John Tootell,
called "Name Unknown" and
containing about 8 1/2 acres.
15 ER 489 6 Oct 1836 William Wrightson and Sarah to William W. Handley Land on road from Drawbridge to Salem, lately the property of Clinton Handley, deceased, father of Sarah, the wife of said William Wrightson.
15 ER 491 13 Oct 1836 William W. Handley of Dorchester Co., to William Wrightson 1/5 of 1/3 of 1/2 of "Partnership", which 1/5 fell to
grantor at the death of his brother Handy Handley.
16 ER 237 16 Mar 1837 Henry Page of Dorchester Co., trustee, to John Gore of the same county Land of Clinton Handley, deceased, "Handleys Venture" about 2 miles from Salem,
containing 229 acres, except the graveyard and a right of way to the same, sold by trustee to William W. Handley and assigned by William W. Handley to John Gore.
16 ER 221 7 Jun 1837 Rhoda Phillips of Dorchester co. to William W. Handley Land on the road from Vienna to the big mills, which was the property of the late Richard Phillips.
16 ER 483 29 Mar 1838 James Thompson and Elizabeth to William Wrightson Lands near the head of the Transquakin River, parts of "Canterbury's Regulation"
"Taylors Inlett". "LeComptes Folley", "Linkwood", and "Partnership"on the road from
Cambridge to Vienna, bought by the said James Thompson and Clinton Handley jointly.
17 ER 325 24 Jun 1839 Thomas H. Hicks and Ann to
William H. Handley(I think the middle initial is supposed to be W.)
Lots 1 and 4 of Nanticoke Manor below Vienna containing 537 acres more or less.
17 ER 525 13 Jan 1840 Henry Page, trustee to William Wrightson Land of Clinton Handley, deceased, part of "Canterbury" containing 217 acres and "Ennalls Woodyard" containing 100 acres( a 1/2 interest with James Thompson
owning other 1/2)
1 EPL 88 28 Jun 1842 Henry Page to Frances Webb Land of William W. Handley
deceased, which the said Handley purchased from
Thomas Hicks.
1 WJ 370 3 Apr 1843 Francis Webb to Hester Handley Land bought by Francis Webb from Henry Page, trustee for sale of real estate of William W. Handley.
18 ER 164 Hester Handley of Dorchester Co. to Francis Webb of Dorchester Co.: Right of dower in Lots 1 and 4
of Nanticoke Manor and "St.Andrews," below the town of Vienna, purchased by William W. Handley, deceased from Thomas H. Hicks by deed 21 Jun 1839
5 WJ 455 30 Jul 1850 Samuel D. LeCompte, trustee to Hester Twilley(formerly Hester Handley) of Dorchester Co. Land of Francis Webb Lots 2 and 4 of Nanticoke Manor in Vienna District containing 537 acres and parts of "St.Andrews" containing 19 1/4 acres and 8 1/2 acres.
2 FJH 357 22 Aug 1853 Lewis Ross of Cambridge, trustee to DeWitt C. Handley Land called "Cremona", near Salem Church containing 112 acres.
2 FJH 454 22 Jun 1853 James D. Twilley and Hester A.(Handley) Twilley his wife 
to William J. S. Handley
Lots 1 and 4 of "Nanticoke Manor" near Vienna, sold by thomas Hicks to William W. Handley by deed dated 24 Jun 1839 (Mortgage, to secure the sum of money due from James and Hester to the said William as guardian to said William) 11 Jul 1853 - 
William J. S. Handley makes oath that the consideration is true and bona fide as set forth, before Nicholas Langfit 31 Oct 1985
Appro. by James Dixon, James Thompson and Zadock Rosse, Judges of the Orphans Court, as an investment in favor of William J. S. Handley.
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