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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 254   View pdf image
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chattels of the said Elijah Marshall I should cause to be made the several sums
of money in the said Executions mentioned, and to make return of the same before
said Justin Abbott or some other Justice of said County, on the first day of April
then next following, and to have then & there the said writs, and the said writs
having come into my hands, I proceded in virtue of the authority therein contained
to seize and take in execution the goods & chattels of said Marshall, and among
other articles I seized & took in execution a Negro Boy called Henry aged about
13 years as the property of said Marshall, and after giving the notice required by
law of the time place & manner of sale, I did expose to public auction at the
store of Muir & Wrightson on the 23 day of April in the year Eighteen hundred
& fifty, the said Negro Boy named Henry, to the highest bidder for Cash,
and Thomas H. Wrightson being then & there the highest bidder became the purchaser
of said Negro at & for the sum of one hundred & five dollars.

Now know all men by these presents that I James N. Wright, Constable
as aforesaid, for and in consideration of the Premises, and in consideration
of the sum of one hundred & five dollars in hand paid at & before the sealing
and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have
bargained & sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain & sell to the said
Thomas H. Wrightson, all the right, title, claim & demand, at law & in Equity,
of the said Elijah Marshall, of, in & to the said Negro Boy named Henry, and
I have put the said Negro Henry in the possession of the said Thomas H.
Wrightson.   In Witness whereof I have set my hand & seal on this 29.th
day of 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 1850, before me a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in
and 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 grantor in the foregoing Bill of sale, and doth acknowledge the same
to be his act and deed.  In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name on the
day & 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
on this 8 day of May in the year 1850, Thomas H. Wrightson the grante
mentioned in the above Bill of sale, and Makes Oath that the consideration
mentioned and expressed in said Bill of sale is true & bona fide & certainly
given as therein expressed                                    Sam.l Abbott  J. P.


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