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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
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possession by delivering to him the said Lewis Ross Jr the said the said Steers Cart &c at the
sealing and delivery (of) these presents in the name of the whole premises hereby bargained and
Sold or mentioned and intend to be so unto him the said Lewis Ross Jr as aforesaid.  In
Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal this 27 day of Dec 1848.
Test Solomon C. Frazier                      his                              William E. M. Frazier   (Seal)
                                                 Moses x Young
                                                          mark

Maryland Dorchester County to wit  On the 27 day of December for me one of the Justices
of the peace in & for said County appeared Moses Young and acknowledges the foregoing
instrument of writing to be his act and deed according to the true intent & meaning thereof &
the Act of Assembly in Such case made and provided                     W. E. M. Frazier


George Wallace      Be it remembered that the following bill of Sale was recorded January 6 1849
60   from   Exd        To wit
Edward T. Edgar                  Know all men by these presents, that I Edward T. Edgar
                               of Dorchester County and State of Maryland for and in consideration of
the Sum of Four hundred dollars current money to me in hand paid by George Wallace of Dorchester
County and State of Maryland have granted bargained and Sold and by these presents do grant
bargain and Sell unto the Said George Wallace his heirs and assigns negro man Draper aged twenty
three years and a Slave for life and Sound in body and mind.  To Have and To Hold
the said negro man Draper a Slave for life as afsd as above bargained and sold unto the
Said George Wallace his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns against me the Said Edward
T. Edgar my heirs Executors and Administrators and against all and every other person
or persons whatsoever shall and will warrant and forever defend.  In witness whereof I Edward T.
Edgar have hereto set my hand and affixed Seal this 5th day of January Eighteen Hundred
and forty nine
Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of                        Edward T Edgar      (Seal)
             Charles Corkran

Maryland Dorchester County to wit:  On the sixth day of January in the year of Our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty nine personally appeared before me a Justice of
the Peace in and for said County the within named Edward T. Edgar and acknowledged the
within bill of Sale to be his act and deed according to the purport true intent and meaning of the
same and at the same time came before me George Wallace within mentioned and made Oath on
the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that the consideration set forth in the bill of Sale is
true and bonafid as therein set forth according to the true meaning of the Act of Assembly of
1848, Chapter 271, made and provided.   Acknowledged before         Charles Corkran
Rec Jany 6 1849 of John R Creighton one dollar in lieu of a Stamp on this bill of Sale Wm Jackson Clk.

Del to George Wallace March 19 1849


Shadrack Mitchell      Be it remembered that the following Manumission was recorded on the 10 day of
55       to       Exd       January 1849, To wit
John Wall                   Maryland Dorchester County to wit:  To all whom it may concern be it known
                                  that Shadrack Mitchell 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


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