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242. Executors, Administrators and Assigns, the following Negroes, that is to say, Negro woman Silva, aged about nineteen years, and Negro Girl Lavinia, aged about fifteen years, said Silva & said Lavinia being slaves for life, and sound in body and mind Also the following other property that is to say one Bay mare one sorrel Horse, two pale red cows, with line Backs, one black cow, one Yoke of Steers, one Brindle Cow, one red cow, four yearlings, twenty head of Hogs, Thirteen Sheep & ten Lambs, two Beds & furniture, the balance of House hold & kitchen furniture, Fifty Barrels of Corn, Two thousand weight of Blade Fodder, crop of wheat now seeded on the Farm where I now life, two Ox Carts, one four wheeled Carriage, one Carriage Waggon. To have and to hold the said Negroes Silva & Lavinia, and the said other described property, above bargained & sold, or mentioned or intended so to be, to the said Rose Ann Barnett, her heirs, executors, Administrators & Assigns, forever. In Witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my name & affix my seal this twentieth day of March in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred & fifty. Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of William E. M. Frazier H. D. Barnett (seal) State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit: On this twentieth 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, in the same person who executed & acknowledged the same before me. At the same time personally appears M.rs Rose Ann Barnett, 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 & bona fide as therein set forth, according to the Act of Assembly in such case made & provided. Acknowledged before William E. M. Frazier. William Corkran Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the following Ex.d 65 from {Stamp} Bill of sale was recorded on the 1.st day of April 1850. {one dol.} Know all men by these presents that I, John A. Corkran John A. Corkran of Dorchester County & State of Maryland, for and in consideration of the sum of four hundred & Eighty five dollars, current money to me in hand paid by William Corkran of said County & State, at and before the sealing & delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof I, the said John A. Corkran, do hereby acknowledge, have granted, bargained & sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain & sell, unto the said William Corkran, his heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns, the following property, To wit: Deld to Benjamin D. Jackson June 15 1850. |
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