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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 139   View pdf image
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untill the twenty fifth day of December Anno Domini Eighteen hundred & fifty
six, thence, and after that time, the said Negro Woman Esther to be free, and
absolved from servitude:  To have and to hold the said Negro Woman Esther,
unto the said Samuel Higgins, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns,
to his and their own proper use and benefit, for and during the term aforesaid.
And I, the said James W. Henry, Agent, or Attorney as aforesaid,
my heirs, Executors and Administrators, the said bargained & sold Negro
Woman Esther, and her future Issue, unto the said Samuel Higgins,
his heirs, executors, Administrators & Assigns, from & against all person
or persons whomsoever, shall and will warrant & defend by these
presents.  In Witness whereof they, the aforesaid, James W. Henry and
Samuel Higgins have hereunto subscribed their names, and their seals
affixed the day and year first above Written.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of        James W. Henry      (seal)
                Geo A. Z. Smith                                   Sam.l Higgins          (seal)

Dorchester County, State of Maryland, ss:  Be it remembered that on
this second day of December, Anno Domini Eighteen hundred & forty
eight, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the
County and State aforesaid, personally appeared James W. Henry, (Agent
or Attorney for Isaac Nevitt Steele) the party grantor to the within
Bill of sale, or instrument of Writing, and also personally appeared
Samuel Higgins, the party grantee in the within Bill of sale,
and Acknowledged the same to be their Act and deed, according to
the true intent and meaning thereof, and for the uses and purposes
therein mentioned and declared, and for no other use, purpose or intent
whatever.      Taken and Acknowledged before
                                                                            Geo. A. Z. Smith  J. P.

Dorchester County, state of Maryland, fs.
On this sixth day of December 1848, before the subscriber, a Justice
of the Peace in and for the County & state aforesaid, personally appeared
Samuel Higgins, the party Grantee to the within Bill of sale,
who made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the
consideration set forth in the within and aforesaid Bill of sale
is true and bona fide as therein set forth.
       Sworn before                              Geo. A. Z. Smith


Margaret Capito            Be it remembered that the following Bill of
Ex.d   from   Paid          Sale was recorded on the 9.th day of December 1848.
Edward A. Marshall      Know all men by these presents that I Edward
                                     A. Marshall, of Cambridge, County of Dorchester
in the State of Maryland, for and in consideration of the sum of one
hundred and twenty dollars, current money, to me in hand paid by

Deliv.d to E. A. Marshall
Dec.r 18.th 1848.


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