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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
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me in hand paid by the said Smith the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have granted
bargained and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell unto the said Samuel W.
Smith, his executors, administrators and assigns my negro man named Charles Sanders aforesaid
To Have and to Hold, for and during the term of four years and seven Months, Commencing
from the first day of June in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty thence ensuing
and fully to be Complete and ended; to wit: until the first day of January in the year of our
Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty five;   And Be it further known by these presents,
that for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving, I the said Anthony C.
Thompson, do hereby give and grant unto the said negro man named Charles Sanders
freedom from all servitude after the expiration and determination of the aforesaid term of
four years and seven months said negro man being, as the law required, of sound mind
and body, capable by work to procure to himself a sufficient livelihood and maintenance,
and not now exceeding nor about at the end of the last aforesaid term of years, to exceed,
the age of forty five years; and it is my will and purpose, intended to take effect by virtue
of this Deed, and the true meaning hereof, that on the aforesaid first day of January in
the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty five (1855) my said negro man Charles
Saunders be released from slavery; liberated, manumitted and set free, and I do hereby
declare him to be thenceforth (to wit, from said first day of January in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and fifty five) forever discharged from all manner of service or
servitude to me or any person or persons claiming under or through me.
In Testimony whereof, I the said Anthony C. Thompson and the said Samuel W Smith
have hereunto subscribed their names and affixed their seals on this Sixteenth day of September
in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty.
Signed and sealed in the presence of as to Thompson            Anthony C. Thompson   (seal)
    James Rea J. P. & Richard C. Hollon                                       S. W. Smith            (seal)
(as to Smith)   Jno Donnell Smith

Dorchester County State of Maryland, Sct:   Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that on
this sixteenth day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty, before me,
the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace of the Sate of Maryland in and for the County of
Dorchester aforesaid personally appears Anthony C. Thompson he being known by me to be
the person who is named and described as and professing to be the party grantor to the foregoing
Bill of Sale and Deed of Manumission, and acknowledges the same to be his act and deed.
In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name on the day and year last aforesaid.
                                                                                                 James Rea    J. P.


James Fooks                          Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that
Ex.d   from                    50     the following Indenture was recorded on the 23.d
Anna Maria & W.m Styles     day of September 1850, To wit:
                                              This Indenture witnesseth that in virtue
of an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland passed December session Eighteen
hundred & thirty nine Chapter 35 entitled "An act to provide for the
better regulation of the free Negroes & Mulatto children within this State,
I, James Fooks have agreed, in presence of Thomas Breerwood, John W.


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