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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 307   View pdf image
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have hereunto set our hands and affixed seals the thirty first day of
December Eighteen hundred & fifty.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the          Jn.o D. Farquharson   (seal)
presence of William H. Barton              Francis P. Phelps        (seal)

Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  On the twenty first day of December in
the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty, personally appeared
before me, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, the within named John
D. Farquharson and Acknowledged the within Bill of sale to be his act & deed,
according to the purport, true intent & meaning of the same:  And at the
same time came before me Francis P. Phelps within mentioned, and made
Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration set forth
in this bill of sale is true & bona fide as therein set forth, according to
the true meaning of the Act of Assembly of 1846 Chapter 271, made
and provided.      Acknowledged before         William H. Barton.

Received the 31.st day of December 1850 of D.r Francis P. Phelps the
sum of one dollar in lieu of a stamp on this Bill of sale.
                                                             Wm Jackson   Clk


Francis P. Phelps      Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the following
Ex.d      from   70      Bill of sale was recorded on the 1.st day of
A. C. Thompson       January in the year 1851, To wit:
                                 This instrument of writing made this first day of
January Anno Domini Eighteen hundred & fifty one, between Anthony C. Thompson
of Dorchester County & State of Maryland, of the one part, and Francis P. Phelps
of the same County & State of the other part, Witnesseth, that the said Anthony
C. Thompson, for and in consideration of the sum of Two hundred & seventy five
dollars, current money, to him in hand paid by the said Francis, hath bargained
and sold, and by these presents do bargain & sell unto the said Francis
P. Phelps, A Negro Girl named & called Rebecca Sprigs and nineteen years
on the first of January 1851, and to serve the said Francis untill she is
forty four years of age, that is to say, till the first of January 1876
and then to be free, according to the terms & provissions of my late Father
Anthony Thompson's will.  For and in consideration of the premises above
mentioned, the said Anthony C. Thompson guarrantees the title to the said
Girl and warrants her to be of sound health & Constitution and a slave
untill the period above specified for her to be free.   In Witness whereof we
have hereunto set our hands & seals the day and year first above written.
    Witness                                                            A. C. Thompson   (seal)
    Charles Corkran.                                              Francis P. Phelps   (seal)

State of Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  Be it remembered and it is


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