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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 180   View pdf image
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subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid, James Higgins
and James Hammersly, and made the following Oath, To wit:  "We James
Higgins & James Hammersly, subscribing witnesses to the above Bond,
do make Oath that James N. Wright, Thomas R. Cook & William Thomas,
Obligors mentioned in the said Bond, did severally, in our presence, sign, seal
and deliver the said Bond, as their act & deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Sworn before me on the day above mentioned.         Charles Corkran


William Layton      Be it remembered that the following Bill of Sale
Ex.d   from  65      was recorded on the 16.th day of April 1849, To wit:
Josiah Layton        Know all men by these presents that I, Josiah
                             Layton, of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland,
for and in consideration of the sum of Seventy five dollars, current money,
to me in hand paid by William Layton, of the County & State aforesaid,
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have granted, bargained &
sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain & sell unto the said
William layton all my undivided right, title, claim and interest
in and to the following property, To wit:  one negro woman called
Harriet and her three Children, they being a part of the property
to which I fell hier by the Will of Elizabeth Parks, dec.d, which
said Henrietta and her three children I will warrant & defend to the
said William Layton, his executors, Administrators and Assigns against
me, my executors and Administrators and against every other person or
persons whomsoever.  In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my names
and affixed my seal this seventeenth day of March in the year of Our Lord
Eighteen hundred & forty nine.   1849.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of            Josiah Layton   (Seal)
Nicholas Langfit   Kendal Fooks

                                     State of Maryland Dorchester County, To wit:
Be it remembered that on this 17.th day of March in the year of Our Lord
eighteen hundred & forty nine, personally appeared before me, the subscriber,
one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, Josiah Layton
and Acknowledges the foregoing writing to be his act & deed, according
to the true intent and meaning thereof and the Acts of Assembly in
such cases made & provided.                  Nicholas Langfit  J. P.

State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit.  On this 17.th day of March in
the year 1849, personally appeared William Layton before the subscriber, a
Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and made Oath on the
Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration mentioned in
the within and aforegoing Bill of sale is true and bona fide as
therein set forth.  Sworn before            Nicholas Langfit  J. P.


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