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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 167   View pdf image
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Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  On the nineteenth day of March in the year
Eighteen hundred & forty nine personally appears before me a Justice of the Peace in
and for the said County, the within named Robert R Richardson & Standley Richardson
and Edward Richardson and acknowledged the within Bill of sale to be their act
and deed according to the purport, true intent and meaning of the same.  And
at the same time came before me Edward Richardson within mentioned &
made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration set
forth in this Bill of sale is true and bona fide as therein set forth
according to the true meaning of the Act of Assembly of 1846 Chapter 271
made & provided.  Acknowledged before               James Hammersly


Hooper C. Hicks & wife      Be it remembered that the following Deed of
Ex.d         To               55    Manumission was recorded on the 2.d day of April 1849.
Martin Haney, Negro           To all whom it may concern be it known that
                                            we Hooper C. Hicks and Harriet Ann Hicks of
Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, for divers good causes and
considerations us 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, our Negro Man named
Martin Hany being about the age of forty five years, and able to
work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance and him
the said negro man named Martin Hany we do declare to be
henceforth free, manumitted & discharged from all manner of service
or servitude to us our executors or administrators forever.  In
Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands & seals this 28.th
day of February 1849.
Witness                                                   Hooper C. Hicks      (seal)
Tho H Webb      G Sewell                       Harriet A. Hicks        (seal)

Dorchester County, State of Maryland, ss.  Be it remembered that on this
second day of April, Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and forty nine
personally and respectively appears Hooper C. Hicks and Harriet A.
Hicks, his wife, parties to the above instrument of writing
before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland
for said County, and Acknowledged the same to be their act
and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned, and the Negro
man therein named to be henceforth manumitted & discharged
from all services to them, or any claiming under them, and to be
free and manumitted according to the Act of Assembly in such
cases made & provided.
                                                       Geo A. Z. Smith   J. P.


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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
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