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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 246   View pdf image
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Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  on the sixth day of April in the year of Our
Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace
in & for said County, the within named Ulysses Huguenin, and acknowledged the within
Bill of sale to be his act & deed, according to the purport, true intent & meaning of
the same; and at the same time came before me, Mary Kennard, free Coloured Woman
within mentioned, and made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that
the consideration set forth in this Bill of sale is true & bona fide as therein
set forth, according to the true meaning of the Act of Assembly of 1846, Chapter
271, made and provided.  Acknowledged before & affidavit made before
                                                                                     Charles Corkran


State of Maryland               Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the
Ex.d    from            65        following Bond was recorded on the 15.th day of April
Jere. L. Pattison & others   in the year 1850, To wit:
                                          {Stamp}   Know all men by these presents that
                                         {15 cents}
we Jeremiah L. Pattison, John W. Travers and John W. Dail, of Dorchester
County, are held & firmly bound unto the State of Maryland in the full and
just sum of Three hundred dollars, current money of the United States, to be paid
to the said State or its certain Attorney, to the which payment well & truly to be
made & done, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors & Administrators, in the
whole & for the whole, jointly & severally firmly by these presents.  Sealed with
our seals & dated this fifteenth day of April Eighteen hundred & fifty.
Whereas the Commissioners for Dorchester County, by virtue of a supplement
to the Act entitled an additional supplement to an Act to regulate Ferries,
have contracted with the said Jeremiah L. Pattison & John W. Travers to keep
the Ferry over Slaughter Creek from the main to where Henry Travers formerly
lived, and agree to allow the said Jeremiah L. Pattison & John W. Travers
the sum of Three hundred & twenty dollars, current money, for the same:
Now the Condition of the above Obligation is such that if the above
bounden Jeremiah L Pattison & John W. Travers shall faithfully & diligently
keep the said Ferry over Slaughter Creek from the main to where
Henry Travers formerly lived from day light to day light from the first
of November to the first of March, and from an hour before to an hour after
day light for the residue of the year, commencing from the tenth day of May
1850 and ending twelve months thereafter and shall keep constantly and in good
order a Scow that will safely carry four passengers & their Horses at one trip,
with two able bodied skilful hands to attend the said Ferry, and shall not
charge or receive any greater price for ferriage than what is allowed by
law, then the above obligation to be void, otherwise of full force & virtue in law
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of            Jere. L. Pattison          (seal)
Jn.o L. Willis   James Hammersly                                John W. D. Travers   (seal)
Approved by the Board of Commissioners for                  John W. Dail        (seal)
Dorchester County By Order,    Test   W.m Rea Clk C. D. C.


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