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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 253   View pdf image
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at and for the sum of sixty dollars.  Now know all men by these presents that I
James N. Wright, Constable as aforesaid, in consideration of the premises, and for and in
consideration of the sum of sixty dollars to me in hand paid by the said John Muir
at and before the sealing & delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged, I have bargained and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain & sell
unto the said John Muir, all the right, title, claim & demand whatsoever, at law and in
Equity, of the said Elijah Marshall of in & to the said Negro Girl named Catharine, and I
have put the said Negro Girl Catharine in possession of the said John Muir.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand seal on this 29.th day March in the year
1850.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of                     James N. Wright   (seal)
                Charles Corkran                                                            Constable

Dorchester County Sct:  Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that on this 29.th day
of March in the year 1850 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the state
of Maryland in & for Dorchester County, personally appears James N. Wright, Constable,
he being known to me to be the person who is named and described as and professing
to be the party Vendor to the above Bill of sale, and doth acknowledge the said instrument
of Writing to be his act and deed.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name on the day and year aforesaid.                  Charles Corkran.

State of Maryland, Dorchester County, Sct:  Personally appears before the subscriber a Justice
of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Dorchester County, John Muir, the grantee in
the above Bill of sale and makes Oath that the consideration therein expressed is true &
bona fide            May 2.d 1850                                       Charles Corkran.


Thomas H. Wrightson      Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the following Bill
Paid   Ex.d   from  95     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 & for Dorchester County, and to me as Constable directed dated 18th
February in the year 1850, one for the sum of Ninety one dollars & sixty six cents Debt
and fifty eight & one half cents cost, another for the sum of sixty six dollars and eighty
four cents debt and fifty eight cents costs, another for the sum of twenty six dollars &
sixty nine cents debt & fifty eight cents costs and another for the sum of Thirty dollars
and seventy seven cents and fifty eight cents costs, making in the aggregate the
sum of Two hundred and forty eight dollars and seventy cents debt & costs, at
the suit of Muir & Wrightson, reciting that Whereas a certain John Muir
and Thomas H. Wrightson or the firm of Muir & Wrightson, by a Judgment
of a certain Robert Muir, a Justice of the Peace of the said County & State, recovered
against one Elijah Marshall the said several sums of Money & Costs
above mentioned and specefied in said Executions, therefore I James N. Wright
Constable was commanded by said writs of fieri facias of the goods and

Deliv.d May 20 1850 to Jn.o Muir


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