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of March, eighteen hundred and thirty two, and all
such children as might be born of her body before
that period, should be slaves until they should arrive
at the age of twenty eight years respectively, and
whereas, after the death of the said Christopher, in the
year eighteen hundred and twenty three, letters of
administration were granted to his widow Jane Hil-
lerd, and one John Hershey, who on the eighth day of
May, eighteen hundred and twenty four sold the said
negro Nan and a child named Philip, born of her
body the twelfth day of December, eighteen hundred
and twenty one, to a certain Margaret Hillerd; the
said Nan to be a slave until the said first day of March,
eighteen hundred and thirty two, and Philip, as well
as such other children as might he born of her body
before that period, to be slaves until they should sever-
ally come to the age of twenty-eight years, according
to the provisions of the said deed of manumission, and
whereas, soon afterwards the said Margaret retaining
the said boy Philip For herself, sold the said negro wo-
man named Nan, to the above named Jane Hillerd, sub-
ject to the conditions and limitations prescribed in the.
said deed of manumission, and whereas, it appears
that the the said negro Nan, after giving birth to
daughter named Ann, in November, eighteen hundred
and twenty four, and also to a son named Samuel, in
the year eighteen hundred twenty nine, was on the first
day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty two, duly
discharged from slavery according to the terms of said
deed, and whereas, it appears that no bill of sale
was executed, acknowledged or recorded, according to
the requisition of the third section of the, act of Assem-
bly, passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and seventeen, chapter one hundred and twelve, in
either of the said sales of said negroes, whereby the
title of said Jane Hillerd, to the services of the said
children Ann and Samuel, until the age of twenty eight
years, is subject to litigation, and whereas, it appears
that the said Margaret Hillerd is long .since dead, and
therefore it is impossible to comply with the provisions
of the said act of Assembly, and whereas, it appears
that no fraud was intended towards the said negroes in
the said sales, and that the only reason why bills of sale
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