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417 shall well and truly pay to the said James A Stewart the Sum of one hundred and Sixty Dollars with Interest due thereon in the following means to wit the Sum of one hundred Dollars in twelve months from date and the Sum of Sixty Dollars in eighteen months from date with all the Interest due thereof then this obligation to be void and provided that if the said James Geoghegan shall fail to make the said payments according to the foregoing stipulation then I hereby authorise and empower the said James A. Stewart or Traverse B Tolley without further process to take possession of the said negro Slaves and make Sale of them or either of them to the best advantage & from the promise to pay of the said claim and after allowing five per Cent Commissions on the said Sales and deducting any other expense they or either of them may incur to pay the balance over to me my heirs Exors Admors or Assigns or the said James A Stewart may adopt any other legal or equitable coards he may think proper so as to have his said claim discharged and for the payment and better Security of the said claim the said James Geoghegan had on this day executed his obligation to said Stewart with the said Traverse B Tolly as Security for the payment of the said one hundred and Sixty Dollars a fee which Judgment is to be entered up at the next Term of Dorchester County Court. In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and Seal this 18.th February 1847. Test Robert Bell James Geoghegan (seal) Dorchester County To wit on this 18.th February 1847 personally appears before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace for said County James Geoghegan and Acknowledged the aforegoing instrument of Writing to be his act and deed. Acknowledged before Robert Bell J. P. Alexander Wilson Be it remembered that the following Deed Ex.d to of Manumission was recorded on the 6.th day William Stevens negro of March 1847, To wit Know all men by these presents that I Alexander Wilson of Dorchester County in the state of Maryland for divers good causes and considerations me hereunto moving have released from slavery, liberated, manumitted and forever set free and by these presents do hereby liberate, manumit and forever set free my negro man called William Stevens aged about thirty five years and sound in mind and body hereby acknowledging the said negro Man called William Stevens discharged from me, my Executors and Administrators from and after this date. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 6.th day of March 1847 his Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of Alexander + Wilson (Seal) Robert Bell J. P. Francis A. Stewart mark |
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