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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 275   View pdf image
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the sum of seventy dollars with interest from date payable twelve months
after date as also in the further sum of Two hundred and seven dollars
twenty nine cents being the balance of Judgment obtained in Dorchester
County Court on this 1.st day of November 1843 by a certain Thomas K. Smith
against said Samuel M.cCollester which has subsequently been accounted for
to said Thomas K. Smith by said W. V. M. Edmondson and which said
Judgment now stands entered to the use of and due to said W. V. M. Edmondson
Now this Indenture Witnesseth that for the better securing of the payment
to the said Edmondson of the amount of the aforesaid note with Interest and
all Costs as also the residue of the aforesaid Judgment, interest and all Costs as
also to obtain a stay of execution on the said Judgment of twelve months
from date hereof the said Samuel M.cCollester hath bargained and sold &
by these presents doth bargain and sell unto the said W. V. M. Edmondson
his heirs and assigns a certain Negro Woman called Louisa about twenty
years old and her two children one called Sarah Jane the other an Infant
not yet named all slaves for life.  To have and to hold the
said negroes above as slaves for life to him the said W.m V. M. Edmondson
his heirs and assigns  And the Samuel M.cCollester doth hereby henceforth
and forever warrant and defend the title to the said Negroes.  In testimony
whereof the said Samuel M.cCollester hath hereunto set his hand and seal
this day and year herein before written                           his
Test   Nimrod Newton                                       Samuel x M.cCollester   (seal)
                                                                                   mark

State of Maryland, Dorchester County Sc.   Be it remembered that
on this nineteenth day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty five personally appears before me a Justice of
the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Samuel McCollester
the party grantor within named and acknowledges the within Indenture
to be his Act and deed and the property therein named to be the right &
estate of the within named W. V. M. Edmondson according to the tenor
thereof.  Taken and Certified the day and year above written
                                                                            Nimrod Newton


James A. Stewart      Be it remembered that the following Deed of
Ex.d      to                 Manumission was recorded on the 25.th day of
John Hawkins            March 1845, To wit:
                                 Know all Men by these presents that for divers good
causes and forasmuch as my Negro Man Slave John Hawkins now
aged about forty five years is an industrious and well behaved servant
I do hereby manumit and set free from my service the said John
Hawkins and his freedom to take effect from this date.
                                     Witness my hand and seal this 24.th


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