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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 220   View pdf image
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my negro Woman named Ann Reed, being under twenty eight years of age, of
a healthy constitution, sound in mind & body, and capable of labour to procure to
herself sufficient food & raiment with other requisite necessaries of life, from &
after the fourth day of July in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred & fifty
two; Provided Always, that if I die before the fourth day of July in the
year aforesaid, then & in that case, I hereby release from slavery, manumit and
set free my said Negro Woman, named Ann Reed, at & from the day of my
decree.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
seal this nineteenth day of January in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred
& fifty.                                                                  his
Witness   James Hammersly                       Skinner x Richardson   (seal)
             Charles Hammersly                                 mark

                                              State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:
On the nineteenth day of January in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred
and fifty, personally appeared before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the
State of Maryland, in and for Dorchester County.  Skinner Richardson, and
acknowledged the foregoing deed of Manumission to be his act & deed, according
to the Act of Assembly in such case made & provided.
                                                                James Hammersly


James A. Stewart      Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that the following
Ex.d   from      50      Bill of sale was recorded on the 4.th day of February 1850.
John Stevens             {Stamp}       Know all men by these presents that I, John Stevens
                               {one dollar}   of Dorchester County  & state of Maryland, for and in
consideration of the sum of Four hundred dollars, to me in hand paid by James A.
Stewart of same County & State, have given, granted, bargained & sold, and by these
presents do give, grant, bargain & sell my Negro Man called "Joe Webb" to the
said James A. Stewart and his heirs and Assigns forever   The said "Joe Webb"
being a slave for a term of years, and to serve untill the first day of August
in the year Eighteen hundred & sixty five and then to be free.  In Witness whereof as
well I, the said John Stevens and the said James A. Stewart, have to these
presents set our hands & seals this sixteenth day of January in the year Eighteen
hundred and fifty.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of us               John E. Stevens     (seal)
                Charles Corkran                                               James A. Stewart   (seal)

State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  On this 16.th day of January 1850, personally appear before me
the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said State & County, John Stevens & James A. Stewart and
acknowledged the foregoing instrument of writing to be their Act & deed; And the said James
A. Stewart made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration mentioned the
said instrument of Writing is bona fide, just & true to the best of his knowledge and
belief.                                                                                    Charles Corkran


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