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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 117   View pdf image
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grantee also personally appeared before the subscriber and made Oath on
the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration mentioned in the
within bill of sale is true and bona fide as therein mentioned.
Acknowledged and sworn before                     Charles Corkran


Edward Street             Be it remembered that the following Deed of Manumission
Paid      to      Ex.d      was recorded on the 14.th day of July 1848, To wit:
Negro Airey                To all whom it doth or may concern, be it known that
                                   I Edward Street of the Town of Cambridge, Dorchester
County in the State of Maryland, for divers good causes & considerations
me thereunto moving, have released from slavery, liberated,
manumitted and set free, and by these presents do hereby release from
Slavery, liberate, manumit and set free my Negro Woman Airey being
of the age Fifty six years and able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and Maintenance, and her the said Negro Woman Airey
I do declare to be henceforth free, manumitted and discharged from
all manner of service or servitude to me, my Executors or Administrators
forever, subject to maintenance by my Estate when an incumbrance.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto my name & seal
affixed this 30.th day of June in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen
hundred and forty eight.
Witness    William Rea                     Edward Street      (Seal)
Charles Corkran
                               Dorchester County Sct.   On the thirteenth
day of June Anno Domini 1848, then came before me the undersigned
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Edward Street and
Acknowledged the within and aforegoing Manumission to be his Act
and deed and delivered for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, according
to the Acts of Assembly in such case made & provided.
Acknowledged before & Certified by         Charles Corkran  J. P.


James Le Compte      Be it remembered that the following Certificate was
Ex.d  Certificate of      recorded on the 20.th day of July 1848, To wit:
Negro Hannah            State of Maryland Dorchester County, To wit:   I hereby
          50                     certify to all manner of persons whom  it doth or may
concern, that being seized & possessed of a certain Negro Slave called Hannah,
aged twenty six years, and being desirous to receive and bring the said Negro
woman within this State, from the State of Virginia, for my own use and
benefit, and not for sale, do make out this Certificate of the said
Negro Hannah agreeably to the Act of Assembly in such case made
and provided.   Witness my hand and seal this 20.th day of July Anno Domini
1848.
Test   Tho. H. Hooper                                    James Le Compte   (Seal)


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