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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 262   View pdf image
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her names & affixed her seal this twenty sixth day of June Eighteen hundred &
fifty.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence                 Mary M. Tubman   (seal)
of us D. W. Tyler
                                                Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:   Be it
remembered & it is hereby certified, that on this 26.th day of June in the year Eighteen
hundred & fifty, personally appeared Mary M. D. Tubman, the party Grantee in
the aforegoing Bill of sale, and Acknowledged the same to be their act & deed,
and delivered the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned   And on the
same day, before me as aforesaid, personally appeared Gabriel P. Lake, the Grantee
named in the aforegoing BIll of sale, and made Oath on the Holy Evangely of
Almighty God, that the consideration mentioned in the aforegoing Bill of sale
is true and bona fide as therein set forth.
Acknowledged & sworn before                                          D. W. Tyler.


Minos Adams      Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the
Ex.d    To    55    following Deed of Manumission was recorded on the
Negro Daniel       2.d day of July A. D. 1850, To wit:
                           To all whom it may concern, be it known that I,
Minos Adams, of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, for divers
good causes & considerations, me thereunto moving, as also in further
consideration of the sum of Twenty dollars, current money, to me in hand
paid, have released from slavery, liberated, manumitted & set free, and
by these presents do hereby release from slavery, liberate, manumit & set
free, my Negro Man named Daniel, being of the age of forty years,
and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood & maintenance, and
him the said Negro Man named Daniel I do declare to be henceforth
free, manumitted & discharged from all manner of service or
servitude to me, my Executors or Administrators forever.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this
    twentyieth^ninth^ day of June 1850 in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred & fifty.
    Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of
    Charles Willis      Jeremiah Cannon                                 Minos Adams   (seal)

State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  On this twentyieth^ninth^ day of June in the year of Our
Lord Eighteen hundred & fifty, personally appeared Minos Adams, the party to the above instrument
of writing, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in & for the County & State aforesaid
and Acknowledged the same to be his act & deed for the purpose above mentioned,
and the negro Man above named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged
from all service to him or to any claiming under him, and to be free and
manumitted according to the acts of Assembly in such case made and
provided.                        Acknowledged before
                                                                            Cha.s T. Smith a J.P.



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