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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 330   View pdf image
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set my hand and seal this 2.d day of January 1846.
Test                                                               James Wallace   (Seal)
Robert Bell                                                    Adm.r of Aaron Cook

I William North of Dorchester County do subscribe and agree to the terms
of the above instrument of writing.  Witness my hand & seal
Test                                                                                 his
Robert Bell                                                           William x North
                                                                                      mark

                    State of Maryland Dorchester County, To wit:   on this 2.d of
January 1846 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for
said State & County personally appears the within named James Wallace
adm.r of Aaron Cook and William North both of said County the one
the Grantor and the other the Grantee and respectively acknowledge the
foregoing instrument of writing to be their act and deed.  In testimony
whereof I have hereto subscribed my name on the day & year aforesaid.
Acknowledged before                                                Robert Bell


William C. Huffington       Be it remembered that the following Manumission
Paid   Ex.d   to                 was recorded on the 3.d February 1846.
Linah Stanley                   Know all men by these presents that I William
                                       C. Huffington of Dorchester County and state of
Maryland for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving
have released from slavery, liberated, manumitted & forever set free and
do by these presents release from slavery, liberate, manumit and forever set
free my my Negro Woman Linah Stanley aged about forty four of sound
mind and body hereby acknowledging the said Negro Woman called Linah
Stanley discharged from me my heirs Executors and administrators and from
all persons whatsoever from and after the date of these presents.  In
testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this
3.d day of February Anno Domini 1846.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of        W. C. Huffington   (Seal)
Robert Bell J. P.   C. W. Hopkins

Maryland Dorchester County, To Wit:  On the 3.d day of February Anno
Domini 1846 the above named William C. Huffington appeared
before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for
the County and state aforesaid and acknowledged the above Manumission
to be his act and deed and delivered the same for the uses & purposes
therein mentioned according to the Act of Assembly in such case made
and provided.                                 Before              Robert Bell   J. P.



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