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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 257   View pdf image
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Mary Ennalls        Be it remembered that the following Manumission was
Paid to  Ex.d        recorded on the 2.d day of January 1845, To wit:
Negro Philemon   To all whom it may concern.  Be it remembered that I Mary
                            Ennalls of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland for divers
good causes and considerations me thereunto moving have liberated and set free from
from and after the first day of January in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred
and forty five; And by these presents do hereby release from slavery, liberate
and manumate & set from my Negro Man Phillamon being of the age of thirty
five years in the month of May next; and able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance and him the said Phillamon I do declare to be
henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all manner of servitude
or services to me my heirs, executors or administrators forever. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 24.th day of
December in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and forty four.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of
Charles Corkran   Josiah Bayly J.r                           Mary Ennalls   (Seal)

                                                       Dorchester County, To wit:
Be it remembered that on this 24.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 the said County and acknowledged the same
to be her act and deed for the purposes within named.   Taken and
acknowledged before                                    Charles Corkran


Henry Phillips             Be it remembered that the following Bill of
Ex.d   from                 sale was recorded on the 6.th day of Jan.y 1845,
Thomas Brannock      To wit:  Know all men by these presents that I
                                  Thomas Brannock of Dorchester County and State
of Maryland for the consideration of the sum of two hundred and twenty
five dollars current money to me in hand paid by Henry Phillips of
the County and State aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge,
have granted, bargained, and sold, and delivered and by
these presents do grant, bargain, sell and deliver unto the said
Henry Phillips, my negro female slave named Sophia Webb aged
eighteen years which said Slave Sophia Webb I will warrant &
defend to the said Henry Phillips, his executors, administrators and
assigns against me my executors and administrators and against
every other person or persons whomsoever.  In Witness whereof I have
hereunto set my name and affixed my seal this third day of
January in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty five.   In the presence of      his                                     his
James Hammersly       Edward B  x  Brannock         Thomas x Brannock  (Seal)
                                                 mark                                 mark


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