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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 208   View pdf image
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Mary Ann Drain                       Be it remembered that the following Deed of
Paid   Ex.d   To    55   Ex.d      Manumission was recorded November 6.th 1849.
Negro Mary Elizabeth              Maryland Sct.  To all whom it may concern,
                                                be it known that I. Mary Ann Drain of the
Town of Cambridge in Dorchester County & State of Maryland, for divers
good causes & 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 & set free, and by these presents do hereby
release from slavery, liberate, manumit & set free my Negro Girl Mary
Elizabeth (daughter of Negro Woman Ann Hicks) being of the age of
fourteen years, and able to work & gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintenance, and her the said Negro Girl Mary Elizabeth I do declare
to be henceforth free, manumitted & discharged from all manner
of servitude or service to me, my Executors or Administrators forever.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed my seal
this twenty sixth day of October in the year of Our Lord Eighteen
hundred and forty nine.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of us        Mary A. Drain   (Seal)
James Rea      Jn.o D. Farquaharson

Maryland Dorchester County, To wit:   Be it remembered that on this
twenty sixth day of October in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred
and forty nine, personally appeared Mary Ann Drain, party to the within
instrument of writing, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace
of the State of Maryland for said County, and Acknowledges the same
to be her Act & deed for the purposes within mentioned, and the Negro
Girl within named to be henceforth manumitted & discharged from all
services to her, or to any claiming under her, and to be free & manumitted
according to the Act of Assembly in such cases made & provided.
Acknowledged before                              James Rea


Anthony C. Thompson      Be it remembered that the following Deed
Ex.d      To               65.   of Manumission was recorded November 6.th 1849.
Sundry Negroes                To all whom it may concern, be it known that
                                         I, Anthony C. Thompson, 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, manumit
and set free on the first day of January, after they have arived
at thirty years of age, and the increase of said slaves I manumit
in like manner, commencing on the first day of January 1850,
namely Abram Sprigs aged nine years   Jeremiah Young aged
six years   George Brown aged seven years   John Henry


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