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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 202   View pdf image
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dollars to me in hand paid by Henry Meekins have granted, bargained and sold and
by these presents do grant, bargain and sell unto the said Henry Meekins my Negroes named
Minty, a slave untill she arrives to the age of thirty one years and her child John
Hickson a slave for life and sound in body and mind to have and to hold the said
Negroes Minty and John Hickson as above bargained and sold unto the said Henry Meekins
his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns against me the said William A. Slacum
my ^heirs^ executors and administrators and against all and every other person or persons shall
and will warrant and defend.  In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed
my seal this tenth day of April 1844
Test   D. W. Tyler                                                         William A. Slacum   (seale)

                            State of Maryland                        County To wit:
on this 10.th day of April 1844 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and
for the said County and state personally appeared William A. Slacum and acknowledged
the above Bill of Sale or instrument of writing to be his act and deed according to the
true intent and meaning thereof.    Acknowledged before      D. W. Tyler


William L. Hearn      Be it remembered that the following Certificate was recorded
Certificate of            on the 13.th day of April 1844.  To wit:
Negroes      x.d        State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  I hereby certify to
                                all manner of persons whom it doth or may concern that being
seized of possessed of certain Negro Slaves by the names following that is to say a
Boy named John Dier aged about twenty years a woman named Ann Maria
aged about twenty four years and a Girl named Jane aged about sixteen years
and being desirous to remove and bring the said negroes from the state of Delaware
within this state for my own use and benefit and not for sale do make out this
Certificate of the said Negroes agreeably to the Act of Assembly in such case made and
provided   Witness my hand and seal this 13.th day of April 1844
Test   Tho H. Hooper                                                   W.m L. Hearn      (Seal)

Del.d W L Hearn 4 May 1844

                                  Maryland Dorchester County, To wit:
on the 13.th day of April Anno Domini 1844 the above named William L. Hearn appears
before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County & State
aforesaid and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he is a citizen
of the state of Maryland and resides in Dorchester County and that the above is
a true and faithful list of the said Negro Slaves and that he hath not removed
the same into this state for the purpose of sale and that they are slaves for life
to the best of his knowledge   Sworn before            John G. Abbott


State of Maryland      Be it remembered that the following Bond was recorded on
       from      Ex.d      the 15.th day of April 1844, To wit:
John Reed                 Know all men by these presents that we Jno Reed, Jacob Wilson
                                 and W.m H. Akers of Dorchester County are held and firmly bound
unto the State of Maryland in the full and just sum of


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