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Whereas, Caleb Batson, a free man of color, late of Cal-
vert county, deceased, purchased in his life time, to wit: in
the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one, from General
Philip Stewart, late of Charles county, deceased, a colored
woman named Letty and her six children, Martha, Adaline,
Daniel, Caleb, Duke and William, being his wife and chil-
dren; and the said woman Letty, after the said purchase,
had the following four children, Brice, Granville, Thomas
and Galen, also the children of the said Caleb Batson, and
one of which children, to wit: Martha died in eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-two, leaving four sons, Jim, John, Henry,
George Washington and Lloyd, all of which negroes are
now alive, except the said Martha; and whereas, the said
Caleb Batson died in eighteen hundred and thirty-two sud-
denly, without manumitting his said wife, children and grand-
children, but intended so to do, as is evidenced by a letter
written by him on his death bed; and whereas, William
Stewart, late of Anne Arundel county, being a creditor of
said Caleb Batson, look out letters of administration on his
estate, from the orphans court of Calvert county, and as-
sumed to act as administrator, and caused all the aforesaid
negroes, except Martha, to be appraised, and the inventory
of appraisement to be returned to the said orphans court as
part of said intestate's personal estate; and the said William
Stewart, administrator as aforesaid, having paid all the
debts due by intestate, except the one due to himself, died
in eighteen hundred and thirty-eight without settling any
account of said administration; and whereas, after the death
of said William Stewart, his Executor, George H. Stewart,
took out from said orphans court, letters of administration
do bonis non, on said Caleb Batson's personal estate, and as-
sumed to act in that capacity, and caused said negroes, ex-
cept said Martha, to be appraised, and inventory of appraise-
ment to be returned to said orphans court, and hath stated
and settled an administration account, by which it appears
that the only assets now remaining in the hands of said ad-
ministrator de bonis non, are the aforementioned negroes,
and that the only remaining debt is a balance due to him as
executor of William Stewart, the sum of one hundred and
ninety-nine dollars and one cent, for over payments, and
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