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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 298   View pdf image
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Mary Ennalls              Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the
            to    Ex.d        following Deed of Manumission was recorded on
Henry Smith Negro    the 10.th day of December A. D. 1850, To wit:
Paid                           To all whom it may concern, be it known that I, Mary
Ennalls, of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, for divers good causes
and considerations me thereunto moving, have released from slavery, liberated, Manumitted
written and set free, and by these presents do hereby release from slavery, liberate,
manumit & set free, my Negro Man named Henry Smith, being about the
age of twenty nine and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintenance, and him the said Negro Man, named Henry Smith, I do
declare to be free, manumitted & discharged from all manner of service
or servitude to me, my Executors or administrators, on the first day of
January Eighteen hundred & fifty one and forever.   In Witness whereof
I have hereto set my hand and seal this ninth day of December A. D. 1850
Witness   Elizabeth Sulivane
                James Rea                                 Mary Ennalls   (sealed)

State of Maryland, Dorchester County, sc.  Be it remembered and it
is hereby certified that on this ninth day of December in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, before the subscriber, a Justice of
the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Dorchester County aforesaid,
personally appears Mary Ennalls, she being known to me to be the
person who is named & described as, and professing to be the party to
the foregoing Deed of Manumission or Indenture, and doth Acknowledge
the said Indenture, or instrument of writing, to be her
act and deed.   In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my
name on the day & year aforesaid.                           James Rea


Mary Ann Cook      Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the
Ex.d    from    75     following bill of sale was recorded on the 12.th day
Sarah Hambleton     of December in the year 1850 1850, To wit:
                               Know all Men by these presents that I Sarah Hambleton
of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, for and in consideration of
the sum of one hundred & fifty dollars, current money, to me in hand
paid by Mary Ann Cook of same County in the said state, at & before
the sealing & delivering of these presents, the receipt whereof I, the said
Sarah Hambleton, do hereby acknowledge, have granted, bargained &
sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain & sell, unto the said Mary
Ann Cook, her Executors, Administrators and Assigns, all the goods, Household
stuff, implements & furniture particularly mentioned, expressed and contained
in the schedule hereunto annexed, that is to say, one Clock, one Cow,
one ^Bed,^ Bedstead & furniture, one Bureaux one Cupboard, one Mahogany Table,
½ doz chairs, one milk house, 3 Iron Pots, one Oven & lid, one Spider, one

Bill of Sale del.d to Noah Abbott March 1.st 1852.



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