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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 214   View pdf image
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Shadrach Mitchell          Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that
Paid      To      Ex.d       the following deed of Manumission was recorded on
Sundry Negroes            the 27.th day of December A. D. 1849, To wit:
                                     To all whom it may concern, be it known that I,
Shadrach Mitchell, of the Town of Cambridge in Dorchester County in
the state of Maryland, for divers good causes & considerations me
thereunto moving, have released from Slavery, liberated, manumitted
and set free my negro woman named Emily Wing, aged twenty five years,
and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance, and
her son Jacob Henry Wing, aged five years on the nineth^teenth^ day of last
October, and her daughter George Ann Wing, aged six months on the 25.th
day of the present month; and her the said negro woman, named Emily
Wing, I do declare to be henceforth free, manumitted & discharged
from all manner of servitude to me, my Executors or Administrators forever;
and the said Negro Children, Jacob Henry Wing and George Ann
Wing when they arrive at the age of fifteen years, at which time they
will be able to work & gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance,
I do declare to be from thenceforth free, manumitted & discharged from
all manner of service or servitude to me my Executors & administrators
forever.  In Witness whereof I have hereto set my name and seal affixed
this 27.th day of December 1849.
Witness Charles Corkran   W.m Rea                  Shadrach Mitchell   (seal)

Maryland Dorchester County, Sct:  On the 27.th day of December Anno
Domini 1849 then came before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for
said County, Shadrach Mitchell, and acknowledged the within deed of
manumission to be his act & deed and delivered for the uses & purposes
therein mentioned, according to the Act of Assembly in such case made &
provided.   Acknowledged before                              Charles Corkran


Paid   Thomas Hughlett          Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that the following
Ex.d          from           70      Bill of Sale was recorded on the 1.st day of January 1850.
W.m K. Travers, Adm.r        Know all men by these presents that I, William K. Travers,
                                             Administrator of Samuel Hurst J.r, of Dorchester County and
State of Maryland, for and in consideration of the sum of Three hundred and
fifty five dollars, current money, to me in hand paid by Thomas Hughlett of
Dorchester County and State of Maryland, have granted, bargained & sold, and by
these presents do grant, bargain & sell, unto the said Thomas Hughlett, his heirs
and Assigns, the following Negro Man named John or Jack, aged about Eighteen
years, to serve sixteen years from the second day of April next according to the
will of Matthias Travers, deceased, slave for sixteen years afs.d and sound in
body & mind.  To have and to hold the said Negro Man John or Jack, aged about
eighteen years, for the term of sixteen years from the second day of April next,

1850 Feby 5 Del to Thomas Hughlett


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