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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 304   View pdf image
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and by these presents do grant, bargain & sell unto the said James Marshall,
his Executors, Administrators & Assigns, a Negro Woman named Jantey Jackson,
slave for life   To have and to hold the said Negro Jantey Jackson to James
Marshall, his Executors, Administrators & Assigns forever:  And I the said Nancy
Camper, for myself, my heirs, executors & Administrators, the said Jantey Jackson
unto James Marshall, his executors, Administrators & Assigns, against me the
said Nancy Camper, my executors & administrators, and against every
other person whatsoever, shall & will warrant & forever defend by these
presents.   In Witness I have hereto set my hand & seal this 26.th day of
December A. D. 1850.                                             her
Acknowledged before                                     Nancy x Camper   (Seal)
    James Rea                                                           mark

                               State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:
On this 26.th day of December 1850, before the subscriber, a Justice of the
Peace, in and for said County, personally appears Nancy Camper, free
Coloured Woman, she being known to me to be the person who is named and
described as, and professing to be a the party to the foregoing Bill of sale
and doth acknowledge the said Bill of sale to be her Act & deed:  At the
same time & place also appeared before the subscriber, James Marshall, grantee
in the said Bill of sale named, and made Oath that the consideration
set forth in the said bill of sale is true & bona fide as therein set forth.
                                                                         James Rea


Delia N. Byns      Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the following
Paid   to   Ex.d     Deed of Manumission was recorded on the 26.th day of
Negro Priscilla      December in the year 1850, To wit:
                            To all whom it may concern, be it known that I, Delia
N. Byns, of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, for divers good causes
and considerations me thereunto moving, have released from slavery, liberated, manumitted
& set free, and by these presents do hereby release from slavery, liberate,
manumit & set free, my Negro Woman named Priscilla, being of the age
of seventeen years, and able to work & gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintenance; and her, the said Negro Woman named Priscilla, I do
declare to be henceforth free, manumitted & discharged from all manner
of servitude or service to me, my Executors or Administrators, forever.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this
twenty sixth day of December Eighteen hundred and fifty.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of us
Josiah Jump   Charles Corkran                     Delia N. Byns      (Seal)

Maryland, Dorchester County, Sct:  Be it remembered that on this twenty
sixth day of December Eighteen hundred & fifty, personally appears Delia
N. Byns, party to the within instrument of writing, before me the subscriber,


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