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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 370   View pdf image
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these presents do hereby release from slavery, liberate, manumit and
set free the following named Negroes, To wit:  Negro woman Linah
now about the age of Twenty three years to serve untill the age of
twenty five years then to be free.  Boy Levin son of Linah four
years of age to be free at the age of twenty four years.  Negro
Girl Mary Frances daughter of Linah nine months old to be
free at the age of twenty four years.  Negro Girl Hester sixteen years
of age in December nest the twenty fifth of said month to serve untill
she arives at the age of twenty one years then to be free.  Negro
Henry being about the age twenty five years and Negro Andrew
about the age of twelve years and able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance and them the said Henry & Andrew
I do declare to be henceforth free, manumitted and discharged from
all manner of servitude or service to me, my executors or administrators
forever.  And I do declare the above ^other^ Negroes above named
who have a time to serve to be free, manumitted & discharged
from all manner of service or servitude to me, my heirs, executors
or administrators when their time of service above named
shall expire.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal this tenth day of July one thousand eight hundred
and forty six.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of         Levin Jones  (Seal)
James Jones of Levin      James Hammersley

                       Received on the day of the date above mentioned the
sum of one dollar current money it being the full consideration
money mentioned within                                    Levin Jones

                     Maryland Dorchester County, To wit:   on this 10.th day
of July 1846 personally appears Levin Jones party to the within instrument
of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the
State of Maryland for the said County and acknowledges the same to be
his Act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned and the
said Negroes within named to be free and Manumitted according to the
specifications therein set forth according to the Act of Assembly in such
cases made and provided.   Acknowledged before
                                                                   James Hammersly


Martin M. Dean             Be it remembered that the following Bill of
Ex.d   from                     Sale was recorded on the 20.th day of July 1846.
Samuel M.cCollester      Know all men by these presents that I Samuel
                                      M.cCollester of Dorchester County in the State of
Maryland for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred & fifty
dollars current money to me in hand paid by Martin M. Dean of


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