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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 149   View pdf image
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free and by these presents do hereby release from Slavery liberate manumit and set free my negro man named
John Wall being of the age of forty one years and able to work and gain a Sufficient livelihood and
maintenance and him the Said negro man named John Wall I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of Servitude or service to me my Executors or Administrators for ever
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed my seal the tenth day of January in the
Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and forty nine
Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of us                                    Shadrack Mitchell   (Seal)
          James Rea      Charles A. Mitchell

Dorchester County Sct  Be it remembered that on the tenth day of January 1849 personally appears
Shadrack Mitchell party to the within instrument of Writing before me the Subscriber a Justice of
the peace of the State of Maryland for the Said County and acknowledge the Same to be an Act and
deed for the purposes within 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      James Rea


John Farquharson             Be it remembered that the following Bill of Sale was Recorded on the
62½     from        Exd       15th day of January 1849  To wit
Stanley Richardson           Know all men by these presents that we Stanley Richardson
Robert R. Richardson       & Robt R. Richardson Exors of Nathan Richardson of Dorchester
                                        County and State of Maryland for and in consideration of the Sum
of two hundred Dollars Current Money to me in hand paid by John D Farquaharson of Dorchester
County and State of Maryland have granted bargained and Sold and by these presents do
Grant bargain and Sell unto the said John D Farquharson his heirs and assigns negro
man Joseph or Josiah Wiggins to serve fourteen years and five months from the first
day of January Eighteen Hundred and forty nine Slave for terms of years afsd and
Sound in ^Body &^ Mind.  To Have and To Hold the said Negro man Joseph or Josias
Higgins for the term of fourteen years and five Months as aforesaid from January 1 last
1849 as above bargained and Sold unto the said John D Farquharson his heirs Executors
Administrators and Assigns against us the said Stanley Richardson & Robert R. Richardson
Exor our heirs executors and Administrators and Against all and every other person or persons
whatsoever shall and warrant and forever defend In testimony Whereof We Stanley & R. R.
Richardson & Jno D Farquharson have hereto set our hands and affixed Seals this thirteenth day
of January Eighteen Hundred and forty nine
    Signed Sealed and delivered                                                            Stanley Richardson   (Seal)
          in the presence of                                                for Self and Robert R. Richardson   (Seal)
    James Hammersly                                                                             Jno D Farquharson   (Seal)

Maryland Dorchester County to wit.  On the thirteenth day of January in the year of Our Lord
one thousand Eight Hundred and forty nine personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace
in and for said County the within named Stanley Richardson & Robert R. Richardson & John D.
Farquharson and acknowledged the within Bill of Sale to be their act and deed according to the Purport

1849 Feby 13 Deld to Jno D Farquharson

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