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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 146   View pdf image
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full and just sum of Two thousand dollars, current money of the
United States, to be paid to the said state or its attorney, to the which
payment well and truly to be made & done, we bind ourselves, our heirs,
executors and Administrators jointly & severally, firmly by these presents.
Sealed with our seals and dated this seventeenth day of December 1848.
The Condition of the above Obligation is such that if the above
bounden William W. Davis shall well and truly execute the Office
of Constable in Election district number two in Dorchester County,
in all things appertaining thereto, and shall well and truly account
for all monies placed in his hands for collection, and shall also
well and truly pay all sums of money received by him, then the
above obligation to be void, otherwise of full force & virtue in
law.                                                                    W.m W. Davis   (seal)
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of      W.m V. M. Edmondson   (seal)
W.m W. Le Compte      William Rea                   Thomas K. Smith             (seal)

Dorchester County, To wit:
On this 18.th day of December 1848, personally appeared before me
the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid,
William W. Le Compte & William Rea, and made the following
Oath, To wit:  We William W. Le Compte & William Rea, subscribing
Witnesses to the above Bond, do make Oath that William W. Davis,
William V. M. Edmondson and Thomas K. Smith, obligors mentioned
in the said Bond, did, severally in our presence, sign, seal and
deliver the said Bond as their Act and deed, for the purposes
therein mentioned.   Sworn before me on the day above mentioned.
                                                                Charles Corkran.
By the Commissioners of Dorchester County,
December 18.th Anno Domini 1848.                  We the undersigned
do hereby approve of the within Bond, and order the same returned
to the Clerk of Dorchester County Court for record.
                                                    John L. Willis      James Higgins
                                                    James Hammersly   Feilder G. Jones
                                                                Thomas Andrews


Robert Parker Negro         Be it remembered that the following Manumission was recorded
Paid      To         Exd         December 28 1848 To wit:
Leah Atkinson and             To all whom it may may Concern, be it known that I Robert Parker
Mary Ann her daughter      of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland for divers Good Causes
                                         and Considerations me thereunto moving as also in further consideration
of One dollar 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 Woman Leah Adkinson being of the age of thirty nine Years and able
to Work and gain a Sufficient livelihood and Maintenance and also my Negro Slave


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