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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 171   View pdf image
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Maryland, Dorchester County To wit:  on this 29.th day of November 1843 Personally
appeared James Kenedy before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
and acknowledged the above bill of Sale or instrument of writing to be his act and deed according
to the true intent and meaning of the same      Acknowledged before         James Smith


Negro Man Silas      Be it remembered that the following deed of Manumission was
Paid  from   Ex.d      recorded on the 6.th day of December 1843, To wit:
Ann Page sen.r         To all whom it may concern be it known that we Ann Page sen.r
Charlotte A. Page     Charlotte A. H. Page, Ann Page J.r, Elizabeth O. Page and Frances
Ann Page J.r             C. Page of the Town of Cambridge in Dorchester County in the
Elizabeth O. Page      State of Maryland for divers good causes and considerations
Frances C. Page        us thereunto moving have released from slavery, liberated, manumitted
                                  and set free and by these presents do hereby release
from Slavery, liberate manumit and set free our Mulatto man named Silas
being of the age of twenty three years and able to work and gain sufficient livelihood
and maintenance and him the said Mulato Man named Silas we do declare to be
henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all manner of service or servitude
to us and our executors or administrators forever.  In Witness whereof we the said
Ann Page sen.r, Charlotte A. H. Page, Ann Page J.r, Elizabeth O. Page and Frances
C. Page have hereunto set our hands and seals this 5.th day of December eighteen
hundred and forty three.                                                Anne Page            (Seal)
Signed, sealed and delivered                              Charlotte A. H. Page        (Seal)
in the presence of us                                                Ann Page                    (Seal)
William Rea                                                             E. O. Page                  (Seal)
James Rea                                                            Frances C. Page             (Seal)

    Dorchester County sct on the 5.th day of December 1843 then came before me
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Ann Page s.r, Charlotte A. H. Page,
Ann Page J.r, Elizabeth O. Page and Frances C. Page parties to the within instrument
of writing and acknowledged the same to be their act and deed for the purposes within
mentioned and the Mulato Man named therein to be henceforth manumitted
and discharged from all service to them or to any claiming under them and to
be free and manumitted according to the act of assembly in such cases made
and provided      Acknowledged before                                 James Rea


Caleb Sheppard      Be it remembered that the following Bill of Sale was
       from    Ex.d      recorded on the 11.th day of December 1843.  To wit:
Ann M. Stewart      Know all men by these presents that I Ann M. Stewart of
                               Dorchester County in the State of Maryland for and in consideration
of the sum of one hundred and seventy five dollars current money to me
in hand paid by Caleb Sheppard of Dorchester County and State aforesaid at
and before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof I



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