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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 252   View pdf image
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and against every person or persons whomsoever.   In Witness whereof we have hereunto set
our hands and seals this the 11.th day of May Eighteen hundred and fifty.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of                   Thomas Bennett          (seal)
Sam.l Abbott      James N. Wright                                                  his
                                                                                          Thomas x Wheatley   (seal)

State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  On this 11.th day of May Eighteen
hundred & fifty, before me, one of the Justices of the Peace for said County, appears
Thomas Bennett, party grantor, and Acknowledges the foregoing writing to be his act
and deed, that the consideration set forth in the Bill of sale is true & bona fide
as therein set forth   At the same time & place also appeared before me, Thomas
Wheatley, Grantee in the said Bill of sale named and made Oath that the consideration
set forth in the said Bill of sale is true and bona fide as therein set forth.
                                           Sworn                        Sam.l Abbott  J. P.


John Muir                    Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the following
Paid  Ex.d   from   95   Bill of sale was recorded on the 13.th day of May 1850, To wit:
James N. Wright          Whereas certain writs of Fieri Facias (four in number)
                                    issued by Samuel Abbott Esquire a Justice of the Peace of
the State of Maryland in and for Dorchester County, and to me directed as
Constable, dated 18.th February in the year Eighteen hundred & fifty, one for
the sum of ninety one dollars & sixty six cents debt and fifty eight & one half
cents Costs, another for the sum of sixty six dollars and eighty four cents debt
and fifty eight cents Cost, another for the sum of Twenty six dollars and sixty
nine cents debt and fifty eight Cents cost and other for the sum of thirty
dollars and seventy seven cents debt & fifty eight cents, making in the aggregate
the sum of Two hundred & forty eight dollars and seventy cents debt & Costs of
said &c at the suit of Muir & Wrighton, reciting, that Whereas the said Muir
and Wrighton, by a Judgment of Robert Muir Esquire, a Justice of the Peace in
and for said County recorded against one Elijah Marshall the said several sums
of Money & Costs, in the said writs mentioned, therefore I, James N. Wright, Constable,
was commanded by said writs of fieri facias, of the goods and chattels
of the said Elijah Marshall should cause to be made & satisfied the said several sums
of Money so as aforesaid recovered and mention in said executions, and to make return
of the same before the said Justin Abbott or some other Justice of the Peace in said County
on the first day of April then next following, and to have then & there those writs, and the
said writs having come into my hands, I proceeded in virtue of the authority therein
contained to size and take into execution the goods and chattels of the said Elijah
Marshall, and among other things I seized and took into execution a Negro Girl
named Catharine, aged about ten years, as the property of said Marshall, and
after giving the notice required by law of the time, place, manner & terms of
sale, I did proceed on the day & hour specefied in said Notice to sell at public
auction, the said Negro Girl Catharine, to the highest bidder for Cash, and
John Muir being then and there the highest bidder became the purchaser

Deliv.d May 20 1850 to Jn.o Muir


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