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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 183   View pdf image
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Maryland, Dorchester County fs.t   Be it remembered and it is hereby
certified that on this 11.th day of January in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and forty four before the subscriber one
of the Justices of the Peace of the said state in and for Dorchester
County personally appeared Thomas K. Smith party Grantor to the aforegoing
Indenture or assignment and acknowledged the same to be his
act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned
                                                                            William Newton


Manumission           Be it remembered that the following Manumission
Sundry Negroes      was recorded on the 13.th day of January 1844 To wit
   from      Ex.d        This Indenture Witnesseth that I Michael Mitchell
Michael Mitchell      of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland for and
                               in consideration of the sum of one cent to me in hand
paid at and before the ensealing and delivery of these presents the receipt
whereof is hereof acknowledged have released from Slavery manumitted and
set free and by these presents do release from slavery manumit and set
free all my Negroes when they shall become thirty years old Jacob to
be free the tenth day of December Eighteen hundred and fifty eight
Jane to be free the twenty eighth day of August Eighteen hundred and
sixty six and the issue of her body to be free at thirty years old  And
May to be free the twenty third day of November Eighteen hundred and sixty
eight and the issue of her body to be free at thirty years old  And Charles
to be free the twentieth day of March eighteen hundred and seventy And
Thomas James to be free the twentieth day of February Eighteen hundred
and seventy three  In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed
my seal this thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord A. D.
Eighteen hundred and forty four
Test Charles Corkran                              Michael Mitchell      (Seal)
    Robert Wallace

                      State of Maryland, Dorchester County To wit:

Be it remembered that on this 13.th day of January in the year of
our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared Michael
Mitchell party to the within instrument of writing before me the subscriber
one of the Justices of the Peace of the state aforesaid for the said
county and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed for the purposes
therein mentioned                  Taken and Acknowledged before
                                                                               Charles Corkran


Martin L. Wright          Be it remembered that the following Bill of Sale
     from      Ex.d           was recorded on the 17.th day of January 1844.  To wit
Levin Wall of Sam.l      Know all men by these presents that I Levin Wall



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