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          Maryland fs.t  Know all men by these Presents that I James West of the City of
       Annapolis am held and firmly bound unto Henry May of Ann Arundel County in the
       full and Just sum of twelve hundred Pounds Current Money to be paid to the said Henry
       May his certain Attorney Executors Administrators or Assigns to the which Payment
       well and truly to be made and done I bind myself my heirs Executors and Administrators
       in and for the whole firmly by these Presents Sealed with my seal and Dated this tenth
       Day of November Anno Domini 1784

                      Whereas the above named Henry May hath this Day Executed a Deed of
       Mortgage to the above bound James West for part of a Tract of Land called Bessington and
       sundry Negroes goods and Chattels therein specified  And also whereas the above bound
       James West hath become security for the said Henry May's performing and fulfilling
       the Judgment of the General Court in an Action of Replevin now there depending between
       Richard Watkins Plaintiff and Henry May Defendant

                      Now the Condition of the above obligation is such that if upon the
       Determination of the suit above Mentioned between the said Richard Watkins
       Plaintiff and the said Henry may Defendant the said Henry May shall do
       perform and fulfil in all things the Judgment of the General Court therein that then
       if the above bound James West shall and do give the said Henry May a perfect good
       and sufficient releas from the above mentioned Mortgage without any further or other
       Consideration whatsoever then this Obligation to be Null and Void otherwise to be and remain
       in full force and Virtue in Law
       Signed Sealed and Delivered
                In Presence of                                                                           James West   (Seal)
                                        Tho.s D Merrick
                                        William Williams
3                   Recorded the 10.th November 1784


Ex.d & Dld
          This Indenture made this sixteenth Day of December in the Year of our
       Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty three  Between John Courts Jones of Montgomery
       County and State of Maryland of the one Part and John Lashley of the
       County and State aforesaid of the other Part  Witnesseth that the said John Courts
       Jones in Consideration of the following Negroes to wit One Negro Woman named
       Jenny One Negro Girl called Alice One Negro Girl called Henny and One Negro
       Girl called Jenny to him the said John Courts Jones by the sad John Lashley Sold
       and Delivered the receipt Whereof is hereby Acknowledged hath Given Granted Bargained
       and sold and by these Presents Doth give Grant Bargain and sell unto the said John
       Lashley Part of a Tract of Land called the Sugar Tree Camps lying and being in
       Washington County beginning at two Bounded Whte Oaks Standing on the East side of a
                                                                                                                               (Hill)


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