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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 329   View pdf image
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will warrant and forever defend by these presents of all & singular which
said goods, household stuff and furniture and other the premises I
the said Henry C. Elbert have put the said Algernon Hurley in full
possession by delivering to him the said Algernon Hurley all of the within
mentioned property at the sealing & delivering of these presents in the name
of the whole premises hereby bargained & sold or mentioned or intended to be
so unto him the said Algernon Hurley as aforesaid.  In Witness whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 1.st day of January 1846.
Witness
Robert Bell                                                   Henry C. Elbert   (Seal)

                            Maryland Dorchester County, To wit:   on this 1.st day
of January 1846 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace
in and for the said County personally appeared the said Henry C. Elbert
and acknowledged the foregoing instrument of writing to be his act and
deed according to the the true intent and meaning thereof and the Acts of
Assembly in such cases made and provided.   Witness my hand
                                                                                  Robert Bell   J. P.


William North                 Be it remembered that the following Bill of Sale was
Ex.d   from                      recorded on the 17.th day of January 1846, To Wit:
James Wallace Adm.r      Know all men by these presents that I James Wallace
of Aaron Cook                adm.r of the late Aaron Cook of Dorchester County of the
                                       State of Maryland by virtue of Authority from the
Orphans Court of said County for and in consideration of the sum of
one hundred and fifty dollars to me in hand paid by the said North,
have granted, bargained, sold & delivered unto William North aforesaid
of said County and State a Negro Woman named "Lydia" to serve the said
North untill the year Eighteen hundred and fifty and then to be free &
her two children the elder a Boy named "Charles" the other a Girl named
Milley   The said boy is now about three years of age and the Girl about three
months of age  The said Boy "Charles" to serve untill he is twenty six years
of age and then to be free provided he is entitled to his freedom under a
certain deed of manumission from the said Aaron Cook of record in the
Clerks Office of said County or under the last Will & testament of the said
Aaron Cook and if he be not so entitled to his freedom there to belong to the
said William North as a slave for life   The said Girl "Milly" also to
serve untill she is twenty six years of age and then to be free provided
she is entitled to her freedom under the aforesaid deed of Manumission
or Will and if she is not so entitled to her freedom then to belong
to the said North as a slave for life.   To have and to hold
the said property to the said William North, his heirs, executors,
Administrators and assigns.   In testimony whereof I have hereunto



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