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14. further consideration of Seventy five dollars current money to me in hand paid 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 man named George Hooper being of the age of thirty one years and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance and him the said negro man named George Hooper I do declare to be henceforth free, manumitted and discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me, my executors or Administrators forever. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal this tenth day of July in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty seven. Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of us Travers Spicer Isaac Davis William K. Travers (Seal) Received on the day of the date herein or above mentioned the sum of Seventy five dollars current money it being the full consideration within mentioned Witness Elijah Tall William K. Travers Maryland Dorchester County, To wit: Be it remembered that on this tenth day of July 1847 personally appears William K. Travers party to the within instrument of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the State of Maryland in and for the said County and Acknowledges the same to be his Act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned and the Negro man within named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged from all services to him or to any claiming under him and to be free and manumitted according to the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided. Acknowledged before Elijah Tall (Seal) William S. Cook Be it remembered that the following Bill of Paid from Ex.d Sale was recorded July 12.th 1847, To wit: Thomas Cook Sen.r Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Cook Sen.r of Dorchester County in the state of Maryland for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and ten dollars current money to me in hand paid by William S. Cook of Dorchester County in the state of Maryland at and before the sealing and delivering of these presents the receipt whereof I the said Thomas Cook S.r do hereby acknowledge, have granted, bargained and sold and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell unto the said William S. Cook his Executors, Administrators and Assigns one Negro Boy by the name of James Payne three years old for life To have and to hold the said Negro Boy above bargained and sold or mentioned or intended so to be to the said William S. Cook, his Executors, Deliv.d Aug.t 16.th 1848 to W. S. C. |
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