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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 14   View pdf image
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further consideration of Seventy five dollars current money to me
in hand paid have released from Slavery, liberated, manumitted
and set free and by these presents do hereby release from Slavery, liberate,
manumit and set free my negro man named George Hooper being
of the age of thirty one years and able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance and him the said negro man named
George Hooper I do declare to be henceforth free, manumitted and
discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me, my executors
or Administrators forever.   In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand and affixed my seal this tenth day of July in
the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty seven.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of us
Travers Spicer      Isaac Davis               William K. Travers    (Seal)

                               Received on the day of the date herein or above
mentioned the sum of Seventy five dollars current money it
being the full consideration within mentioned
Witness Elijah Tall                           William K. Travers

Maryland Dorchester County, To wit:   Be it remembered that on
this tenth day of July 1847 personally appears William K. Travers
party to the within instrument of writing before me the subscriber
a Justice of the Peace for the State of Maryland in and for the
said County and Acknowledges the same to be his Act and deed
for the purposes therein mentioned and the Negro man within
named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged from all services
to him or to any claiming under him and to be free and
manumitted according to the Act of Assembly in such case made
and provided.      Acknowledged before         Elijah Tall   (Seal)


William S. Cook              Be it remembered that the following Bill of
Paid      from      Ex.d      Sale was recorded July 12.th 1847, To wit:
Thomas Cook Sen.r        Know all men by these presents that I Thomas
                                       Cook Sen.r of Dorchester County in the state of
Maryland for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and
ten dollars current money to me in hand paid by William S. Cook of
Dorchester County in the state of Maryland at and before the sealing and
delivering of these presents the receipt whereof I the said Thomas
Cook S.r do hereby acknowledge, have granted, bargained and sold
and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell unto the said
William S. Cook his Executors, Administrators and Assigns one
Negro Boy by the name of James Payne three years old for life
To have and to hold the said Negro Boy above bargained and sold or
mentioned or intended so to be to the said William S. Cook, his Executors,

Deliv.d Aug.t 16.th 1848 to W. S. C.


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