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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
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to be his act and Deed.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribe my hand on the day and year aforesaid
                                                                                                                                              James Rea

Maryland Dorchester County sct.  Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that on this eleventh day
of March in the year of Our Lord One thousand eighteen thousand eight hundred and fifty before the Subscriber one of
the State of Maryland's Justices of the Peace in and for Dorchester County personally appears Elihu Wheatley
and makes Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration set forth in the aforegoing
Mortgage is true and bonafide as therein set forth.
                                                                                     Sworn before         Charles Corkran


Eliza Rauliegh            Be it remembered & it is hereby Certified that the following
Ex.d      from   65      Bill of Sale was recorded on the 19.th day of March 1850.
H. D. Barnett               {Stamp}      Know all men by these presents that I,
                                  {one dol.}     Harrison D. Barrett, of Dorchester County and
State of Maryland, for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred
and sixteen dollars, current money, ($516.00) to me in hand paid by M.rs
Eliza Rauleigh, Widow of Hooper Rauliegh of the County and State
aforesaid ^at & before the sealing & delivery of these presents^ the receipt whereof I, the said Harrison D. Barnett, do hereby acknowledge,
have granted, bargained & sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain
and sell, unto the said Eliza Rauliegh, her heirs, executors, Administrators &
Assigns, the following Negroes, that is to say, Negro Girl Martha, aged about
fourteen years, and Negro Girl Caroline, aged about ten years, said Martha
and Caroline being slaves for life & sound in body & mind.  To have and to
hold the said Negroes above bargained & sold, or mentioned or intended so to be, to
the said Eliza Rauliegh, her heirs, executors, Administrators & Assigns forever.
In Witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my seal this nineteenth
day of March in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of
                Charles Corkran                                    H. D. Barnett   (seal)

State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  On this nineteenth day of March in the year
Eighteen hundred & fifty, personally appears before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace
of the State of Maryland, in and for the body of Dorchester County aforesaid Harrison
D. Barnett, party grantor in the above Bill of sale, and acknowledged the aforegoing
Bill of sale to be his act & deed, and I am satisfied, from my own knowledge, that
the said Harrison D. Barnett, who professes to be the party grantor in the above Bill
of sale, is the same person who executed & acknowledged the same before me.  At
the same time personally appears M.rs Eliza Rauleigh, party grantee in the said Bill
of sale, and made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration
mentioned in the aforegoing Bill of sale is true and bona fide as therein set
forth, according to the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided
       Acknowledged before                                             Charles Corkran

Bill of Sale Delivered to H. D. Barnett June 5.th 1855 as per order filed


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