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18 instrument shall cease & be utterly void. In Testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands & affixed our seals this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five Signed sealed and delivered in Leslie M. Stewart (seal) presence of Elsth Hall Jon Nicholson Elizabeth C. Stewart (seal) The words and said in 24 & 26 lines & the words our and nine in the 28 & 35 lines & the word Caroline in 42 line first before the execution hereof At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit Jon Nicholson State of Maryland Anne Arundel County to wit On this 9.th day of April 1845 personally appeared Leslie M. Stewart and Elizabeth Caroline Stewart his wife before me one of the Justices of the Justices of the peace in & for said County and acknowledges the foregoing writing to be their act and deed according to the true intent and meaning and the act of Assembly in such cases made and provided and I do further certify that the said Leslie M. Stewart and Elizabeth Caroline Stewart are known to me to be the same identical person professing to have signed & sealed the same within Instrument Witness my hand certify in the 9.th line first interlined Jon Nicholson before the execution hereof J. N. Examd x.d d costs 62½cts Recorded the 22.nd day of April 1845.
current money to me in hand paid by John Rice of the County and State aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have granted bargained sold and delivered and by these presents do grant bargain sell and deliver unto the said John Rice my negro Slave Sam to serve until the year 1856 and then to be free and discharge from Slavery which said Slave Sam I will warrant and defend to the said John Rice his executors administrators and assigns against me my executors and administrators and against me my executors and administrators and against every other person or persons whomsoever In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 24 day of March 1845 In presence of Mary Baldwin (seal) Martha R. Baldwin Exd Del costs 50cts Recorded the 21.st day of April 1845. |
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