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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 238   View pdf image
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negro girl having to serve according to the will of Aaron Cook to the full end and term of twenty four
years from the 31.st day of December in the year Eighteen Hundred and forty two it being all the right
title and Estate of the said Aaron Cook of in and to the said negro girl sold by me under authority
of the Orphans' Court of Dorchester County In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and
seals this 11.th day of March in the year Eighteen hundred & fifty
                                                                                                               Sam.l D. LeCompte   (seal)
                                                                                                                Edwin E. Medford     (seal)

State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:  On the 11.th day of March in the year Eighteen
Hundred & fifty before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace of said State in & for said County
personally appeared Sam.l D. LeCompte and Edwin E. Medford being know to me to be the persons
professing to be parties to the aforegoing instrument of writing and acknowledged the same to be their act
and deed for the purposes therein mentioned: At the same time appeared the said Edwin E. Medford
and made Oath on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God that the consideration herein expressed
is true and bonafide
                                                                                                    Charles Corkran


Wm James B. Thompson      Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that the following
Ex.d         from            70      Bill of Sale was recorded on the 11.th day of March 1850 to wit:
James Thompson Exor                     Know all men by these presents That I James
                                              Thompson Executor of W.m J. Howard deceased of Dorchester
County and State of Maryland for and in consideration of the Sum of Three Hundred and
fifty Dollars Current money to me in hand paid by William James B. Thompson of Dorchester
County and State of Maryland have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do
grant bargain and sell unto the said William James B. Thompson his heirs and assigns negro
Man Named Joshua a servant until the end of the year Eighteen Hundred and Sixty seven
1867 at which time he will be entitled to his freedom under the will of Jacob Howard deceased
and sound in body and mind:  To have and To hold the said negro man as a Servant
aforesaid until the expiration of the year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Seven as
above bargained and sold unto the said W.m James B. Thompson his heirs Executors administrators
and assigns against me the said James Thompson Executor of W.m J. Howard and his and my
heirs, Executors and administrators, and against all and every other person or persons whatsoever shall and
will warrant and forever defend.  In testimony whereof I James Thompson Executor as aforesaid
and William James B. Thompson have hereto set their hands and affixed seals this twenty seventh day
of January Eighteen Hundred and fifty
Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of            James Thompson Exor of William J Howard   (seal)
                                                                                        W.m J. B. Thompson                               (seal)

Maryland Dorchester County to wit:  On this eleventh day of March in the year of Our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and         personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and
for said County the within Named James Thompson Exor of W.m J. Howard and W.m Jas B Thompson
and acknowledged the within Bill of Sale to be their act and Deed according to the purport true intent and
meaning of the same and at the same time came before me William James B. Thompson within
mentioned and made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration set forth

Deliv.d Nov.r 25.th 1850 to James Thompson


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