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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 255   View pdf image
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John Richardson      Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the following
Ex.d   from      60    Bill of sale was recorded on the 13.th day of May 1850, To wit:
John H. Bell             Know all men by these presents that I, John H. Bell of
                               Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, for and in consideration
of the sum of fifty dollars, current money, to me in hand paid by John Richardson
of the same County and State aforesaid, at or before the sealing & delivery of these presents,
the receipt whereof I, the said John H. Bell, do hereby acknowledge, have
granted, bargained & sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain & sell unto the said
John Richardson, his Executors, Administrators & Assigns, one Bay Horse called "Charley"
which I obtained from Otho Linthicum by way of a trade, which said Horse is
now in my possession:   To have and to hold the said Horse "Charley", above
bargained & sold, or mentioned, or intended so to be, to the said John Richardson,
his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, forever.  In Witness whereof I hereunto
subscribe my name and affix my seal this thirteenth day of May Anno Domini
Eighteen hundred & fifty.                                                      his
Signed sealed & delivered in the presence of             John H. x Bell   (seal)
                Charles Corkran                                                  mark

                                           State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:
On the thirteenth day of May in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County,
personally appeared John H. Bell and acknowledged the above instrument of writing,
or Bill of sale, to be his 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
appeared John Richardson, party grantee in the above Bill of sale, 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, according to the act of Assembly in
such case made & provided.         Acknowledged before      Charles Corkran.


Paid  Thomas Jones           Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the following Bill of sale
         Ex.d   from      80      was recorded on the 15.th day of Mary in the year 1850, To wit:
         James M. Bannon      Know all men by these presents that I, James M. Bannan, of
                                          Baltimore City & County, and State of Maryland, for and in consideration
of the sum of Two hundred & ten dollars, lawful money of the United
States, in hand paid by Thomas Jones of Dorchester County Estern shore of Mariland,
aforesaid, at or before the sealing & delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is
hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained & sold, and by these presents do grant,
bargain & sell, unto the said Thomas Jones, his executors, administrators and
Assigns, a certain Black Girl named Susan, about Eleven years & six months
old on the first day of May 1850, the said Girl to serve untill October the
first 1868, or untill she shall arrive at the age of thirty years, as will be
paid by reference to a ^Deed of^ Manumission recorded in Cambridge, Dorchester County
Eastern shore of Maryland.   To have and to hold the said described black
Girl, named Susan, unto the said Thomas Jones for the period of Eighteen

B of Sale deld to Thomas Jones December 5 1850


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