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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 257   View pdf image
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Seller, for myself, my heirs, executors and Administrators, all & singular the said
goods, house hold stuff unto the said Samuel Craig Purchaser, his executors, administrators
& Assigns, against me the said Samuel Craig Seller my Executors and
Administrators and Assigns against all & every other person or persons whatsoever
shall & will warrant & forever defend whereof in testimony I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal this 16.th day of May 1850.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of us
Zachariah Tall      James Craig                                    Samuel Craig      (seal)

State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:   On this 16.th day of May 1850,
before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in & for said County, personally
appeared Samuel Craig Seller and Acknowledged the above instrument of writing
or Bill of sale, to be his Act and deed, according to the true intent & meaning
thereof, and the Act of Assembly in such case made & provided.
Acknowledged before                                                      James Craig J. P.
On this 16.th day of May 1850 personally appeared Samuel Craig Purchaser
and made Oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that the above Bill of
sale is a true & bona fide bill of sale and the consideration therein mentioned
is just & true as set forth in said paper.           Sworn before James Craig J. P.


William F. Hicks                  Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the following
Ex.d      from      75              Bill of sale was recorded on the 27.th day of May 1850, To wit:
Thompson & Hutchinson      Know all men by these presents that we James Hutcheson &
                                            Mitchel Thompson, Executors of James Hutchinson, late of Dorchester
County M.d deceased, for and in consideration of the sum of Two hundred and
twenty five dollars, current money, to them in hand paid, by William Franklin Hicks,
of the County & State aforesaid, have granted, bargained & sold, and by these presents do
grant, bargain & sell, unto the said William Franklin Hicks, his heirs and Assigns,
one Negro Woman named Juliann, a servant untill the thirty first day of December,
A. D. Eighteen hundred and sixty five, at which time the said Negro Juliann
will be entitled to her fredom under the will of the said James Hutchinson dec.d
and of sound in body & mind   To have and to hold the said Negro Woman, as aforesaid,
untill the expiration of the year Eighteen hundred & sixty five, as bargained & sold,
unto the said William Franklin Hicks, his heirs, executors & Administrators:  And
the said James Hutchinson & Mitchell Thompson, Executors of the said James
Hutchinson dec.d, do promise & agree to and with the said William Franklin
Hicks, his heirs, executors and Administrators, the aforesaid bargained & sold Negro
Woman, for the term above specified, against them, and against all and every
person or persons whatsoever, shall & will hereafter warrant & forever defend by
these presents.  In testimony whereof the said James Hutchinson & Mitchell Thompson,
Executors as aforesaid, and William Franklin Hicks, (Purchaser,) have hereunto
set their hands and affixed their seals this twenty fifth day of May in the
year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty.


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