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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 327   View pdf image
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ensealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged,
have released from slavery, manumitted and set free &
by these presents do release from slavery, manumit and set free my Negro
Man Dennis and my Negro Woman Mariah being of healthy constitution
sound in mind & body and capable by labor to procure to
themselves food and rament with other requisite necessaries of life
provided that the said Dennis and Mariah shall continue to serve
me as heretofore and in all things demean themselves as good, faithful
and obedient Servants to me untill the day of my death.  (I
also by these presents release from slavery, manumit and set free my
Negro Girl Leviney who was born on the 25.th day of February in the
year eighteen hundred and thirty eight from and after the twenty
fifth day of February in the year eighteen hundred & sixty eight:
Provided always that the said Negro Girl Leviney shall serve my
Grandaughter Partia Richardson as a good faithful & obedient
servant ought to do during the said term provided further if the
said Partia Richardson should die before the expiration of the said
Levineys term of service then and in that case she shall serve my
Grandaughter Sarah Richardson for and during the balance of the
unexpired term of service.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal this eighth day of December in the year eighteen hundred
and forty five.                                                                   his
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of           Sarah + Busick   (seal)
Eliza Busick      Ann G. Richardson                                 mark

State of Maryland Dorchester County, To wit:   Be it remembered that
on this eighth day of December in the year eighteen hundred & forty five
before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County
personally appeared Sarah Busick and acknowledged the foregoing instrument
of writing to be her Act and deed according to the true intent
and meaning thereof and the Act of Assembly in such case made and
provided.  Acknowledged before and Certified by
                                                                         Standley Richardson


Eben L. Short                      Be it remembered that the following receipt or
Paid   Ex.d   from                 release was recorded on the 5.th day of January 1846.
J. W. & B. H. Robinson       Dorchester County May 12.th 1845 on this sixteenth
                                            day of January 1843 William Short gave to Isaac
and Brittin H. Robertson a Mortgage on Negro Boy John fore one hundred
dollars.  Eben Short the administrator of William Short has since
paid to said Isaac & Brittin Robertson the debt of one hundred dollars
due to them by said William Short and this instrument of writing

Delivered Jan.y 5.th 1846
to Eben L. Short


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