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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 55   View pdf image
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                                           55.

William W. Laird          Be it remembered that the following Deed of Manumission
Ex.d      to      55          was recorded on the 18.th day of January 1848, To wit:
Martha Ellen Parker      To all whom it may concern be it known that I William W.
                                     Laird of Dorchester County in the state of Maryland for divers
good causes and considerations me thereunto moving 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 Girl named Martha Ellen Parker being of the age
of eight years and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and Maintenance
and her the said Negro Girl named Martha Ellen Parker I do declare to be henceforth
free, manumitted and discharged from all manner of service or servitude to
me, my Executors or Administrators forever.   In Witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of January in the year of Our
Lord eighteen hundred and forty eight.
Witnesses                                                            W.m W. Laird   (Seale)
Robert Bell   D. M. Henry

                                              State of Maryland Dorchester County, Sct.
be it remembered and it is hereby certified that on this seventeenth day of January
in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty eight before the subscriber
a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Dorchester
County aforesaid personally appears William W. Laird he being known to me to be
the person who is named and described as and professing to be a party to the foregoing
deed or instrument of writing and doth Acknowledge the same to be
his act and deed.  In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name on the
day and year aforesaid.                                                Robert Bell  J. P.


William Holland's          Be it remembered that the following Certificate was
Certificate of Negro      recorded on the 25.th day of January 1848, To wit:
Girl Elizabeth  Ex.d       A list of slaves brought from Sussex County Delaware and
                                    introduced into the State of Maryland by William Hollow of
Dorchester County and state of Maryland as his slaves for life on the 30.th day of
December Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty seven Viz, one Negro
Girl named Elizabeth aged about sixteen years and of a dark chesnut colour.
                                                                                     William Hollow

Dorchester County, State of Maryland.

On this twentieth day of January Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty
eight before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County & state aforesaid
personally appeared William Hollow of the County and state aforesaid and made Oath
on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God the above and aforegoing list of a Negro Girl
Elizabeth as described thereon is just and true and a full list of the Negroes brought
by him this deponant from sussex County Delaware into Dorchester County
Maryland and that he has not removed said Negro Girl into this state
for the purpose of sale and that she is a slave for life and also that it
in his intention still as heretofore to be a Citizen and resident of the County



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