Identification: MSS 584
Creator: Elliot family.
Title: Elliot-McKee family deeds
Inclusive Dates: 1753–1900
Bulk Dates: 1816–1858
Extent: 43 items
Abstract: This collection of eighteenth and nineteenth-century deeds, mortgages, and bonds relate to the McKee and Elliot families of New Castle County, Delaware.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 584, Elliot-McKee family deeds, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Box 1: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches)
F1–F3: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases
Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library / Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 / Phone: 302-831-2229 / Fax: 302-831-6003 / URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
Gift, 1976.
Processed and encoded by Keith Minsinger, September 2008.
The collection is open for research.
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Sources:
Conrad, Henry C. History of the state of Delaware, by Henry C. Conrad, from the earliest settlements to the year 1907. Wilmington, Del. : The author, 1908.
Additional biographical information derived from collection.
The McKee-Elliot family deeds comprise the land indentures, deeds, mortgages, and other papers of two nineteenth-century families of New Castle County, Delaware. Dating from the late eighteenth through early twentieth centuries, these forty-three documents are largely from the dealings of Cloud Elliot with the McKee family, and the dealings of his sons and grandsons with other business associates. Several of these names appear multiple times, such as George Scott, Ezekiel Bennet, George Armstrong, and the Broome brothers, James and Jacob. The documents are almost entirely deeds of parcels of land in the Brandywine Hundred between the McKee and Elliot families. The later mortgages were issued by corporations, including the Delaware Construction Company and the Christina Improvement Company. Some of these deeds are for marshland and others are for city lots within Wilmington, but most are for farmland within the Brandywine Hundred.
Individual documents arranged in chronological order.
Land indenture between William Epsom and John Elliot , 1753 August 29 [F1] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Andrew McKee and Jonathan Hulings , 1765 June [Box 1 F4] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between John Long and James Broome , 1769 August 12 [F1] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Robert Little and Jacob Broome , 1781 June 21 [Box 1 F4] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between John Stockton and Thomas Beeson , 1789 May 30 [F1] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between William Elliot and William Mark , 1790 October 18 [F1] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between George McKee and Cloud Elliot , 1815 November 15 [F2] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Cloud Elliot and J. Elliot & E. Beeson , 1816 April 15 [F2] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Cloud Elliot and Francis Hughy , 1816 April 9 [Box 1 F4] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Hugh McKee and Cloud Elliot , 1816 May 15 [F2] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Rachel & Francis McKee and Cloud Elliot , 1816 May 2 [F2] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Benjamin Elliot and Cloud Elliot , 1816 June 15 [F2] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Cloud Elliot and the McKee Family , 1816 November 9 [Box 1 F4] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Cloud Elliot and James McKee , 1817 March 25 [F3] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Cloud Elliot and Robert McKee , 1817 November 29 [Box 1 F4] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between William Elliot and Cloud Elliot , 1818 June 4 [Box 1 F5] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Andrew McKee and Cloud Elliot , 1822 August 24 [F3] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Ezekiel Bennett and Jacob B. Vandever , 1826 January 28 [F3] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
A sale of land for James McKee and Thomas McKee , 1825 December 29 [F3] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Ezekiel Bennett and Eliza Elliot , 1828 November 5 [Box 1 F5] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Eliza Elliot and Andrew McKee , 1833 April 2 [Box 1 F5] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Samuel McKee, et al. and George Scott , 1833 June 15 [Box 1 F5] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
A mortgage between Andrew McKee and George Scott , 1834 October 1 [Box 1 F5] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Alexander Moore and Edward Tatnall , 1836 January 6 [Box 1 F6] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Andrew McKee and James Cluff et al. , 1837 March 20 [Box 1 F6] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Isaac S. Elliot, Jr. and Eliza Elliot , 1840 August 28 [Box 1 F6] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Isaac S. Elliot, Jr. and William T. Talley , 1842 March 26 [Box 1 F6] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
In the Orphan Court of Delaware, for New Castle County. , 1851 February 13 [Box 1 F6] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between John . Elliot & George Armstrong and Isaac Elliot, Jr. , 1854 February 25 [F3] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases)
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Isaac S. Elliot, Jr. and Eliza Elliot , 1854 March 16 [Box 1 F7] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Bond between George Scott and George McKee , 1856 July 28 [Box 1 F7] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between George McKee and George Scott , 1856 July 28 [Box 1 F7] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Andrew McKee and George McKee , 1856 September 15 [Box 1 F7] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Release of bond between George McKee and Frances McKee , 1858 February 13 [Box 1 F7] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Letter between Grace and [Howard] , 1858 May 18 [Box 1 F8] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Folded thin paper document
Land indenture between Matthew Slater and Joshua Heald , 1858 June 2 [Box 1 F8] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Release of bond by Isaac S. Elliot, Jr. of Benjamin Elliot , 1858 January 13 [Box 1 F8] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between Isaac S. Elliot, Jr. and Benjamin Elliot , 1859 January 13 [Box 1 F8] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between William Bright and George S. McKee , 1864 January 13 [Box 1 F8] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Land indenture between George Mosely and Lewis Shelham & Franklin Shelham , 1875 October 1 [Box 1 F9] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Large parchment document
Mortgage; the Christiana River Improvement Co. and David Bankee & John B. Stradely , 1878 December 3 [Box 1 F9] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Small paper booklet
Deed between Isaac C. Elliot and Eliza and Holstein Harvey , 1894 November 30 [Box 1 F9] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Paper document
Mortgage; Delaware Construction Co. to Isaac C. Elliot , 1900 December 12 [Box 1 F9] (Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches))
Small paper booklet