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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 274   View pdf image
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John Troth              Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the
Ex.d    from    50    following Indenture was recorded on the 23.d day of
Priscilla Styles         September in the year 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, Chap 35 entitled an Act ot provide for the
better regulation of the free Negroes and Mulatto Children within
this State, I, John Troth have agreed in presence of Thomas Breerwood
John W. Dail & Algernon Thomas, Justices of the Orphans Court of
Dorchester County, who have testified their Assent by witnessing this
Indenture, that I will take as an Apprentice Negro Priscilla
Stiles, daughter of Jonathan Stiles, who is now before the said
Justices and aged five years, to serve me as an Apprentice untill
she attains the age of sixteen years, and I agree to furnish and
provide for said Apprentice good & sufficient meat, drink,
clothes, washing, lodging & other requisite necessaries fitting for
an Apprentice and to teach her the occupation of House wifery
in the several branches thereof, and when free to give her the
sum of Eight dollars current money as freedom dues.
As witness my hand & seal this 23d day of September in the year
of Our Lord Eighteen hundred & fifty.  1850.
Witness    Thomas Breerwood
John W. Dail      Algernon Thomas              John Troth      (Seal)


James A. Stewart      Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that
Ex.d    from      65     the following Mortgage Bill of sale was recorded
Joseph Marine           on the 25.th day of September 1850, To wit:
                                 Whereas the undersigned, Joseph Marine, free
coloured Man, of Dorchester County, stands indebted to James A. Stewart
for the balance due on a Judgment in Dorchester County Court in
favor of said Stewart and against the said Joseph Marine
and Jere Marine his security   And Whereas there has been an
execution issued on the said Judgment and certain property
levied upon by the Sheriff and which is probably not sufficiently
available to pay off the said Judgment   And Whereas the said
Joseph Marine her other property, not embraced in the said occupation
and is desirous of securing the said James A. Stewart as
for as possible and making the said property available for the payment
of the said Judgment   Now this Indenture Witnesseth
that the said Joseph Marine, for and in consideration of the
premises and the sum of one dollar to him in hand paid by
the said James A. Stewart, has given, granted, bargained and
sold, and by these presents does give, grant, bargain and sell unto


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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
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