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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 221   View pdf image
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and discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me, my executors or administrators
forever.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
my seal this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord 1844.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of
    Joel Cornwell                                                Robert Parker   (Seal)
Received on the day of the date within mentioned the sum of one dollar current Money
it being the full consideration money within mentioned.
Witness   Joel Cornwell                                                      Robert Parker   (Seal)

             Dorchester County sct.  Be it remembered that on this 20.th day of April personally
appears Robert Parker party to the within instrument of writing before me
the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the state of Maryland for the said County &
acknowledges the same to be his act and deed for the purposes within mentioned and
the negro Man within named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged from all
services to him or to any claiming under him and to be free and manumitted according
to the act of Assembly in such cases made and provided.   Acknowledged
before                                                                     Joel Cornwell


Joseph R. Eccleston   Be it remembered that the following Certificate was
  Certificate of            recorded on the 27.th day of April 1844, To wit:
     Negroes    Ex.d    State of Maryland Dorchester County, To wit:  I hereby Certify that
                                 being seized and possessed of Certain Negro Slaves that is to
say John Hall aged about 47 years, Marietta aged about 23 years, Sylva aged
about 22 years, Darky aged about 14 years, John aged about 13 years, Mary aged
about 11 years, and Ned aged about 3 years, and being desirous to remove and bring
the said Negroes from the Territory of Florida 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 the
27.th April 1844.
Test   Charles Corkran                                             Joseph R. Eccleston   (Seal)

                               Dorchester County, To wit:   On the 27.th day of April 1844 the
above named Joseph R. Eccleston appeared before me the subscriber one of the
Justices of the Peace in and for the County 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
                                                                                              Charles Corkran


Elijah Hurst            Be it remembered that the following Bill of Sale was recorded on the
    from                  29.th day of April 1844, To wit:
James D. Twilley   Know all men by these presents that I James D. Twilley administrator
                             of Hooper Norman for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred

Deld E Harte 20 May 1844 by M


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