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164) Ex.d Maryland fs.t To all Christian People these Presents shall Come I Jacob Andrew Minitree of Charles County in the Province aforesaid Carpenter Send Greeting in our Lord God Everlasting Know Yee that I the Said Jacob Andrew Minitree as well for & in Consideration of the Naturall Affection & Fatherly Love which I bear unto my well beloved Son Jacob Andrew Minitree Junior as also for Divers Other Good Causes and Considerations me hereunto especially moveing Have given Granted & by these Presents do give grant & Confirm unto the Said Jacob Andrew Minitree Junior One Negro Man Named Cooper to have & to hold the Said Negro man unto him the Said Jacob Andrew Minitree Jun.r his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns for the Severall Uses Intents and Purposes following that is to Say the Said Negro Man to be the Right and Property of the Said Jacob Andrew Minitree Jun.r his Heirs Ex.rs & Assigns at his Age of Twenty one years of the Day of my Death which shall first happen & in Case he shall happen to Dye before he Arrives to the Said Age of Twenty One Years or Day of my Death then the Said Negro to be the property & Right of my Daughter Mary Minitree her Heirs Executors Administrators & Assigns at her Age of Sixteen years Day of Marrige or Day of my Death which shall first happen & in Case of her Death before she arrives to the Age of Sixteen Years Day of Marriage or Day of My Death then the Said Negro man to be the right of my Daughter Elizabeth Minitree at her Age of Sixteen Years Day of Marriage or Day of my Death which shall first happen and in Case of her Death before she attains the Said Age of Sixteen Years Day of Marriage or Day of my Death then the Said Negro to be the Sole right & Property of me the Said Jacob Andrew Minitree my Heirs Executors Administrators & Assignes for ever & to and for no Other Use Intent or Purpose whatsoever and the Said Jacob Andrew Minitree the Said Negro man ^un^to the Said Jacob Andrew Minitree Jun.r his Heirs Executors Administrators & Assignes to the Uses & Purposes af.d Against all Persons whatsoever will Warrant & forever Defend by these Presents In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seale this Sixteenth Day of August Anno Domini 1740 Jacob Andrew Minitree seale Sealed & Delivered in the Presence of On the back of the aforegoing Deed was thus Robert Gordon Indorst Viz.t Rich.d Burdus |
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