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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 282   View pdf image
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aforesaid do hereby Certify that on this first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty seven before me in the CIty aforesaid personally appeared Theodore Phillips
well known to me to be the person who is named and described as and professing to be the party of
the first part to the foregoing deed or Indenture and doth acknowledge the same to be his act and
deed   ;
                                                                                                         A. H. Pennington J. P.

And I do further Certify that on this second day of June 1857 before me also personally
appeared Thomas Hooper the Mortgagee within named and made oath on the Holy Evangely of
Almighty God that the consideration set forth in the foregoing Deed of Mortgage is true and
bona fide as therein set forth.  In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name on the day
and year aforesaid                                                                        A. H. Penington J. P.





Dennis Ross              Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Manumission
√      from   xd           was received and recorded on the 15th day of June A. D. 1857 to wit:
William K Travers      I William K Travers of Dorchester County and State of Maryland
                                  do hereby manumit and set free my negro slave Dennis Ross aged about
thirty seven years five feet three inches high of a Black complexion his freedom to commence
from the date of these presents.  Witness my hand and seal this 15th day of June
A. D. 1857
Test   M. Travers                                                               W. K. Travers      (seal)
         S W LeCompte
                                     State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:  I hereby Certify
that on this fifteenth day of June Eighteen hundred and fifty seven personally appeared
before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for Dorchester County aforesaid William K Travers
and acknowledged the foregoing Deed of Manumission to be his act.
                                                                                                       S. W. LeCompte J. P.


The State of Maryland      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following
√            From      xd        Bond was received and recorded on the 15th day of June 1857 to wit
William Creighton             Know all men by these precepts that we Wm Creighton
                                        Jno R Creighton & William Rea of Dorchester in the State of
Maryland are held and bound unto the State of Maryland in the full and just sum of
Fifteen thousand Dollars Current money of the United States to be paid to the State of Maryland
which payment well and truly to be made and done we bind ourselves and every of
us ours and every of our heirs executors and administrators in the whole and for the whole
jointly and severally by these precepts.  Sealed with our seals and dated this 15th day of
June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven.

                   The Condition of the above obligation are such that if the above bounden Wm
Creighton shall well and truly discharge the duties of Treasurer of Primary Schools of Dorchester
County according to law then the above obligation shall be void otherwise it is to be and remain
in full force and virtue in law


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