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233. or may have grown or shall grow upon the said farm during the current year unto the said M.rs Hester Handley her heirs and assigns to the only proper use and behoof of the said M.rs Hester Handley her heirs and assigns forever. In Witness whereof the said Francis Webb the party of the first part hath hereunto set his hand and seal on the day and year first heretofore written Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of Francis Webb (seal) Charles Corkran Dorchester County State of Maryland To wit: On this ninth day of July in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the said state in and for said County the said Francis Webb grantor in the above instrument of writing being known to me the same person he is professed to be therein and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed Charles Corkran Thomas Woolford Be it remembered that the following Manumission to Ex.d was recorded on the 15.th day of July 1844, To wit: Sundry Negroes To all persons whom it doth or may concern Be it known that I Thomas Woolford of Dorchester County and state of Maryland for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving hereby release from slavery, liberate, manumit and set free my several Negro Slaves hereinafter named my Negro Woman Lina aged about 37 years to be free on the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and forty seven also my Negro Boy Benjamin aged about twenty one years to serve untill the first day of January eighteen hundred and forty nine and also my Negro Boy Daniel to serve untill the year eighteen hundred and fifty three which time will expire on the first day of January of said year all being able to work & gain a sufficient support and livelihood and maintenance and to be discharged from all manner of service or servitude to me my heirs executors or administrators for ever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 15.th day of July in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and forty four. Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of Charles Corkran Thomas Woolford (seal) Be it remembered that on this 15.th day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared Thomas Woolford party to the within instrument of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Dorchester County and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned. Acknowledged before Charles Corkran Levin Phillips Be it remembered that the following Bill of Sale was from Ex.d recorded on the 22.d day of July 1844 To wit: Phillips & Meekins Know all men by these presents that I John Phillips Deld L Phillips 20 Augt 1844 |
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