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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 251   View pdf image
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John W. Brown            Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the following
Ex.d      from      65      Bill of sale was recorded on the 9.th day of May 1850, To wit
Sarah B. Brown            {Stamp}   Know all men by these presents that I, Sarah
                                   {one dol.}  B. Brown, of Caroline County and state of Maryland,
for and in consideration of the sum of Four hundred dollars, current money
to me in hand paid, at & before the sealing & delivery of these presents, by John
W. Brown of Dorchester County and state aforesaid, the receipt of which, I, the
said Sarah B. Brown, do hereby acknowledge.  I, the said Sarah B. Brown have
granted, bargained & sold & delivered, and by these presents do grant, bargain & sell &
deliver unto the said John W. Brown, a Negro Boy, Charles, about Eighteen years old,
whose term of servitude or slavery will expire on the first day of January Eighteen
hundred and sixty eight (1868) as reference to the record of his Manumission in the
records of Dorchester County will show:  To have and to hold the said Negro Boy Charles,
above bargained & sold, or mentioned and intended so to be, during the balance of his term
of servitude or slavery, unto the said John W. Brown, his heirs, executors, Administrators
and Assigns.  In testimony whereof, I the said Sarah B. Brown, as also the said John
W. Brown, have hereunto set our names and affixed our seals on this thirtieth day of
April in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty (1850).
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of                     Sarah B. Brown   (seal)
                   Cha.s T. Smith                                                John W. Brown   (seal)

State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  On this thirtieth day of April in the
year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty (1850) before me the subscriber,
a Justice of the Peace, in & for said County, personally appears Sarah B. Brown (she
being known to me) and acknowledged the above Indenture, or instrument of writing
to be her act and deed, according to the true intent & meaning thereof, and the
acts of Assembly in such case made & provided:  At the same time personally
appears John W. Brown, party grantor (he being by me known) and made Oath on
the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration set forth in this Bill
of sale is true and bona fide as therein set forth.   Acknowledged & sworn before
                                                                           Cha.s T. Smith


Thomas Wheatley      Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the following Bill of sale
Ex.d      from      55   was recorded on the 13.th day of May 1850, To wit:
Thomas Bennett         Know all men by these presents that I, Thomas Bennett, of Dorchester
                                  County in the state of Maryland, for and in consideration of one
hundred & seventy five dollars, current money, to me in hand paid by Thomas Wheatley, of
the County and state aforesaid, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have granted,
bargained, sold & delivered, unto the said Thomas Wheatley, one Negro Girl called May
Kennard, aged aged Eleven Years and five months and seventeen days, to serve till
she is thirty years of age; which said Negro Girl May Kennard, I will warrant
and defend to the said Thomas Wheatley, his heirs, executors, Administrators & Assigns,
till she shall be thirty years of age and against me my heirs Executors & administrators


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