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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 188   View pdf image
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a servant in our family, in consequence of the affection & fidelity of
the said Negro Woman to my ^said^ deceased sister.  Having recently purchased the said
Negro Woman from my Brother, Joseph H. Byns, I, the said James A.
Byns, in consideration of the above recited premises, do hereby manumit
and forever set free the said Negro Woman Brittania, the said Brittania
being under forty five years of age, in good health, and in all respects
capacitated to gain for herself a sufficient support and maintenance:
And I the said James A. Byns do hereby declare the said Brittania
free, clear & discharged from all manner of servitude to me the said
James A. Byns, or to my heirs, executors, Administrators or Assigns forever.
In testimony whereof I the said James A. Byns have hereunto set
my hand & affixed my seal this 4.th day of June in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred & forty nine.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of        James A. Byns   (Seal)
Charles Corkran      John T. Tasker

Maryland, Dorchester County, Sct:   Be it remembered & it is hereby
certified, that on this 4.th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred & forty nine, before the subscriber, one of the State of
Maryland's Justices of the Peace in & for Dorchester County, personally
appears James A. Byns and acknowledges the foregoing Deed of Manumission,
or instrument of Writing to be his act & deed for the purposes
therein mentioned.               Charles Corkran J. P.  S M.d


Sarah Pattison            Be it remembered that the following Deed of
Paid Ex.d To  50        Manumission was recorded on the 8.th day of June
Annette Woolford       A. D. 1849, To wit:
                                  To all whom it may concern, be it known, that
I, sarah Pattison of Dorchester County in the state of Maryland,
for divers good causes & considerations me thereunto moving, have
released from slavery, liberated, manumitted & set free, and by these
presents do hereby release from slavery, liberate, manumit and set
free my negro Girl named Annette Woolford, (being of the age of
two years) on the first day of May in the year Eighteen hundred
and fifty seven, and her the said negro Girl Annette Woolford
I do declare to be free, manumitted & discharged from all manner
of service or servitude to me, my Executors & Administrators after
the above named first day of May in the year Eighteen hundred
and fifty seven.   In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal this 6 day of June 1849.
Witness                                               Sarah Pattison   (Seal)
    James Bryan      Isaac J. T. Harris


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