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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 25   View pdf image
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five years and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintenance and him the said Negro Man Moses Monokey I do declare
to be henceforth free, manumitted and discharged from all manner of
service or servitude to me my Executors or Administrators forever
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
seventh day of September Eighteen hundred & forty seven
Wm Kirby      W.m W. Le Compte
                                                    Anthony C. Thompson   (Seal)

On this seventh day of September 1847 personally appeared before the
subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for Dorchester County and state
aforesaid and acknowledged the within deed of Manumission to be his
Act and deed for the true intent and meaning thereof as witness my
hand & seal the day and date above written.
                                                                 W.m W. Le Compte  J. P.


Mary P. Ford           Be it remembered that the following Deed of
      to     Ex.d           Manumission was recorded September 13.th 1847, To wit:
Negro Garretson      To all whom it may concern be it known that I Mary
                                P. Ford of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland
for divers good causes & considerations me thereunto moving as also in further
consideration of one dollar current money to me in hand paid have
released from slavery, liberated, manumitted and set free and by these presents
do hereby release from slavery, liberate, manumit and sett free my Negro
lad named Garrison being of the age of seventeen years and able to work
and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance provided the said
named negro serve me, my heirs or Assigns faithfully untill he
is forty one years of age after which term of servitude I do declare
the said named Negro lad to be thereafter free, manumitted & discharged
from all manner of servitude or service to me, my heirs or Assigns for
ever.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
seal this Eighteenth day of August 1847.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of            Mary P. Ford      (Seale)
C. W. Breerwood   Thomas P. Wheeler

                                  State of Maryland Dorchester County, To wit:
On this Eighteenth day of August in the year of Our Lord 1847 personally
appears Mary P. Ford party to the within instrument of writing
of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of
Maryland for the said County and Acknowledges the same to be her
Act and deed for the purposes within mentioned and the Negro lad
within named after he shall have served untill he is forty one
years of age to be thereafter manumitted and discharged from all
services to her or to any claiming under her and to be free and


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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
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