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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 223   View pdf image
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Margaret Hester and      Be it remembered that the following Bill
Martha Jane Wilson        of Sale was recorded on the 4.th May 1844
       from      Ex.d            Know all men by these presents that I Lydia Wilson
Lydia Wilson                   of Dorchester County state of Maryland in consideration
                                       of the natural love and affection which I
have and bare towards my daughters Margaret Hester and Martha Jane &
for and towards the better support and maintenance of them after my decease
and for divers other good coses and valuable considerations me thereunto expressly
moving have given granted ^and by these presents have given granted^ unto the said Margaret Hester and Martha
Jane one Negro Boy named William one Negro Girl named Catharine two beds
and furniture.  To have and to hold the said property hereby granted bargained
and given unto the said Margaret Hester and Martha Jain their executors
administrators and assigns as their own property from henceforth forever.
Provided always and these presents are upon this special trust & confidence
and upon express condition that they the said Margaret Hester and Martha
Jain their executors administrators and assigns shall and do permit and
suffer me the said Lydia Wilson to use keep and enjoy all and singular the
said property during my natural life without paying or yielding any thing
for the same or in any respect thereof and not otherwise and that from
and after my decease they the said Margaret Hester and Martha Jain their
executors administrators or assigns shall or lawfully may have hold and
enjoy the same and every part and parcel thereof and dispose thereof and
covert the same to their own and proper use and behoof as they may think
fit  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this
twenty ninth day of April eighteen hundred and forty fore.
Test   Rebecca G. Navy                                 Lydia X her  Wilson
                                                                              mark

Delivered March 23rd 1853 to William Frazier


State of Maryland Dorchester County   Be it remembered and it is hereby
Certified that on this twenty ninth day of April Eighteen hundred and forty four
before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and
for Dorchester County personally appears Lydia Willson she being known to me to
be the person who is named and described as and professing to be a party to the
foregoing instrument of writing and doth acknowledge the said instrument of writing
to be her act and deed.  In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name
on the day and year first aforesaid.                              Caleb Griffin


Anthony C. Thompson   Be it remembered that the following Bill of
       from      Ex.d           sale was recorded on the 10.th day of May 1844, To wit:
Ricksom Webb               Know all men by these presents that I Rickson Webb
                                      of Caroline County and state of Maryland for and in
consideration of the sum of two hundred and forty eight dollars and
fifty cents current money to me in hand paid by Anthony C. Thompson



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