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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 255   View pdf image
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and forty five to serve untill the twenty fifth day of December in
the year eighteen hundred and Sixty three he being now sound healthy & strong
and each ableled bodyed Negroes   And by these presents hereby liberate &
set free from and after the dates aforesaid my two negroes above named
Minty Dickinson and John Dickinson being of the ages aforesaid I do declare
that from and after the expiration of the aforesaid time to e free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of servitude or services to me my heirs executors
administrators or assigns for ever.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal this 25.th day of December in the year
of Our Lord eighteen hundred and forty four
signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of us   Ann Priscilla Smith Vanes   (seal)
Charles Corkran   John Parvin

Dorchester County, To wit:  Be it remembered that on this 25.th day of December
in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared the
party to the within instrument of writing before me the subscriber a Justice
of the Peace of the state of Maryland in and for the said County and acknowledged
the same to be her Act and deed for the purposes therein named
Taken and acknowledged before                        Charles Corkran


George & Henry Willey      Be it remembered that the following Bill of Sale
Ex.d      from                      was recorded on the 26.th day of December 1844, To wit:
Rachel Willey                     Know all men by these presents that I Rachel Willey
                                          of Dorchester County in the state of Maryland for and
in consideration of the Natural love and affection which I have and owe unto
my two children one named George Thomas Willey the other Henry Fitzs
Borough Willey of the County and state aforesaid I the said Rachel Willey
do by these presents do give and grant unto my two sons George T Willey
and Henry F Willey them their Exec.rs adm.rs or assigns the following named
property goods and Chattels, to wit:  three work Steers three Cows and one
Ox Cart Eleven head of Hogs two Beds Bedsteads and furniture Six
windsor Chairs two Tables one hands mill one plough one Trunk and
all the residue of my house hold furniture all and singular which said
goods and chattels are now remaining and being on a certain messuage or
tenement situate in Lakes district Dorchester County and now in the occupation
of the said Rachell Willey  To have and to hold all and singular
the said Goods and chattels House hold stuff and furniture and other premises
above given and granted or mentioned and intended so to be to the said
George T. Willey and Henry F. Willey them their heirs Exe.rs adm.rs or assigns
forever  And I the said Rachel Willey for myself my heirs Exe.rs and adm.rs
all and singular the said Goods House hold stuff and furniture and
other the premises unto the said George T & Henry F Willey them
their Ex.rs adm.rs and assigns against me the said Rachel Willey



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