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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 273   View pdf image
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to have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do grant
bargain and sell unto the said Zacchariah Linthicum his heirs and
assigns forever one Negro Woman Mary and child Eliza Jane slaves
for life.  To have and to hold said negroes above bargained and sold
unto the said Linthicum his heirs and assigns forever.  In testimony
whereof I the said Levin W. Tall hath hereto set my hand and affixed
my seal this 24 day February in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred
and forty five.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of    Levin W. Tall   (Seal)
Thomas Jones

                                        Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:
Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that on this twenty fourth day
of February in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and forty five before
me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
personally appears Levin W. Tall who acknowledges the foregoing Bill
of Sale or instrument of writing to be his act and deed.
Acknowledged before                                 Thomas Jones


John Jackson Negro      Be it remembered that the following Manumission
Paid    Ex.d   to             was recorded on the 11.th day of March 1845, To wit:
Rose Stanley Negro      Know all men by these presents that I John Jackson
                                     a free man of colour of Dorchester County in the state of
Maryland for divers good causes and considerations me hereunto moving have
released from slavery, liberated, manumitted and forever set free and by these presents
do hereby release from slavery, liberate, manumit and forever set free My Negro
woman called Rose Stanley aged about thirty eight years of sound constitution
and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance.  Hereby
acknowledging the said Negro Woman Rose Stanley to be free and discharged
from all claim of service or right of property from me, my heirs, executors &
administrators and from all persons whatsoever from and after the date hereof
Witness my hand and seal this 11.th day of March 1845         his
signed sealed & delivered in the presence of                    John x Jackson   (seal)
Robert Bell   Tho. H. Hooper                                                mark

                         Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  on the 11.th day of
March 1845 the above named John Jackson appeared before me the subscriber
one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid &
acknowledged the above Manumission to be his act and deed and delivered the
same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned according to the act of
assembly in such case made and provided.  Acknowledged before
                                                                               Robert Bell


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