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307. have hereunto set our hands and affixed seals the thirty first day of December Eighteen hundred & fifty. Signed, sealed & delivered in the Jn.o D. Farquharson (seal) presence of William H. Barton Francis P. Phelps (seal) Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit: On the twenty first day of December in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, the within named John D. Farquharson and Acknowledged the within Bill of sale to be his act & deed, according to the purport, true intent & meaning of the same: And at the same time came before me Francis P. Phelps within mentioned, and made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration set forth in this bill of sale is true & bona fide as therein set forth, according to the true meaning of the Act of Assembly of 1846 Chapter 271, made and provided. Acknowledged before William H. Barton. Received the 31.st day of December 1850 of D.r Francis P. Phelps the sum of one dollar in lieu of a stamp on this Bill of sale. Wm Jackson Clk Francis P. Phelps Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the following Ex.d from 70 Bill of sale was recorded on the 1.st day of A. C. Thompson January in the year 1851, To wit: This instrument of writing made this first day of January Anno Domini Eighteen hundred & fifty one, between Anthony C. Thompson of Dorchester County & State of Maryland, of the one part, and Francis P. Phelps of the same County & State of the other part, Witnesseth, that the said Anthony C. Thompson, for and in consideration of the sum of Two hundred & seventy five dollars, current money, to him in hand paid by the said Francis, hath bargained and sold, and by these presents do bargain & sell unto the said Francis P. Phelps, A Negro Girl named & called Rebecca Sprigs and nineteen years on the first of January 1851, and to serve the said Francis untill she is forty four years of age, that is to say, till the first of January 1876 and then to be free, according to the terms & provissions of my late Father Anthony Thompson's will. For and in consideration of the premises above mentioned, the said Anthony C. Thompson guarrantees the title to the said Girl and warrants her to be of sound health & Constitution and a slave untill the period above specified for her to be free. In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands & seals the day and year first above written. Witness A. C. Thompson (seal) Charles Corkran. Francis P. Phelps (seal) State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit: Be it remembered and it is |
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