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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 217   View pdf image
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Affa Richardson aged about forty two years, also my Negro Girl named Phillis
Ann Richardson, aged about fourteen years, and also my negro Girl named Sarah
Elizabeth Richardson, aged about twelve years, and are able to work and gain a
sufficient livelihood & maintenance and them the said Negroes Affa Richardson,
Phillis Ann Richardson, and Sarah Elizabeth Richardson, I do declare to be henceforth
free, manumitted and 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 Eighth day of January Eighteen hundred and fifty.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of                     his
Josiah Jump      Charles Corkran                             Joseph x Richardson   (seal)
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Maryland, Dorchester County, Sc:  Be it remembered that on this Eighth day
of January Eighteen hundred & fifty personally appears Joseph Richardson, free
coloured man, part to the within instrument of writing, before me the subscriber,
a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for said County, and
acknowledges the same to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned,
and the several negroes within named to be henceforth manumitted & discharged
from all services to him, or to any claiming under him, and to be free & manumitted,
according to the Act of Assembly in such cases made and provided.
                   Acknowledged before               Charles Corkran, J. Peace.


Ann H. Bayly             Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the following Deed
Paid      To   Ex.d      of Manumission was recorded on the 10.th day of January 1850, To wit:
Sundry Negroes        To all whom it may concern:  Be it known that I, Ann H.
                                 Bayly, 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 & set free, and by these presents do hereby release from slavery, liberate,
manumit & set free, my negro woman named Ellen, being of the age of twenty seven years,
and able to work & gain a sufficient livelihood & maintenance, and her children, To wit:
Walter aged eight years, Mary aged six years, and Sophia aged three years; and her the
said Negro Woman Ellen and her three children I do declare to be free as follows, To wit:
Ellen to be free forthwith & from henceforth, and each of her children, Walter, Mary & Sophia
to be free when they attain the age of fifteen years, at which time they will be able to work
and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance; and I do declare the said woman, Ellen,
and her three children free, manumitted and discharged from all manner of services or servitude
to me my Executors or Administrators, according to the above specified ages, forever.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand seal this second day of January Eighteen hundred
and fifty.   Witness W.m Rea    James Rea                                    Ann H. Bayly   (seal)

Maryland, Dorchester County, Sct:  On the 2.d day of January 1850, then came before me, a Justice
of the Peace, in & for Dorchester County, M.rs Ann H. Bayly, and acknowledged the above & foregoing
Deed of Manumission to be her act and deed, according to the purport, true intent & meaning
of the same, and the acts of Assembly in such case made and provided.
                                           Acknowledged before                                    James Rea


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