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15 Administrators and Assigns forever: And I the said Thomas Cook S.r for myself, my heirs, executors and Administrators the said Negro Boy James Payn unto the said William S. Cook, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns against me the said Thomas Cook S.r, my executors, Administrators and against all and every other person or persons whatever shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents. As Witness my hand & seal this 26.th day of June Eighteen hundred and forty seven. his Robert H. Muir Thomas x Cook (Seal) mark Maryland Dorchester County, To wit: Be it remembered that on this day of Eighteen hundred and forty seven before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace of the said state in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Thomas Cook S.r party to the within Indenture and acknowledged the said Indenture to be his Act and deed Robert H. Muir Thomas J. Pattison Be it remembered that the following Manumission To Ex.d was recorded on the 26.th day of July 1847. Jinkins Miller Negro State of Maryland Dorchester County, To wit: Know all men by these presents that I Thomas James Pattison of Dorchester County in the state of Maryland for divers good causes 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 man Jinkins Miller (after serving John E. Stevens the term of Fifteen years from the twentieth day of May Eighteen hundred and forty six) and him the said Jinkins Miller I do declare to be free after serving as aforesaid and discharged from all manner of service or servitude to me, my Executors or Administrators forever. In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this twenty fourth day of July Eighteen hundred and forty seven. Witnesses Robert Bell J. P. T. J. Pattison (Seal) Thomas M. Flint State of Maryland Dorchester County Sct Be it remembered that on this twenty fourth day of July Eighteen hundred and forty seven before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County appears Thomas James Pattison and acknowledges the above instrument of writing to be his act and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof. Acknowledged before Robert Bell J. P. |
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