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- August 26, 1769, Samuel Kirke, aged about eighty, deposed at Philadelphia "that said Baldwin
Johnson came over to the Three-Lower Counties sometime in or about 1713 and 1714 settled at
Appoquinimy Hundred aforesaid, and soon after [1716 by the foregoing Church Record] ...
intermarried with one Jane Dyer, the widow of William Dyer of Appoquinimy, aforesaid, Gentleman,
dec'd."
NEW CASTLE CNTY DE LAND RECORDS 1715-1728 by Carol Bryant
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Sheriff's Deed. On 07 Oct 1717 Anthony HOUSTOWN, Sheriff of the County of New Castle to Baldwin JOHNSON of the county of New Castle, gentleman. Whereas Sarah QUARRY, executor of the will of
Robert QUARRY, Esq dec'd at the Court of Common Pleas recovered against Baldwin JOHNSON & Jane his wife, administrators of the goods & chattels of William DYRE, late of New Castle, gentleman,
dec'd lately called Guilielium DYRE de Comitat Alori Castor Genetosum a debt of 140 pounds & L4.3.4 damages to be levied on the goods & lands of William DYRE who died intestate now in the
possession of Baldwin JOHNSON & Jane his wife. Whereas Anthony HOUSTOWN seized a tract of land containing 400 acres & a negro woman called Elisabeth. Anthony HOUSTOWN for 66 pounds granted to
Baldwin JOHNSON a tract of land containing 400 acres being in the forest upon Mark Bird Creek & the negro woman called Elizabeth. Signed Anthony HOUSTOWN, sheriff. Delived in the presence of
John FRENCH, Richard HALLEWELL & Nicholas MEERS. Recorded 30 Jun 1720 (E1-339)
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