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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 308   View pdf image
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hereby certified that on this first day of January Anno Domini eighteen hundred
& fifty one, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland
in & for the County aforesaid, personally appears, Anthony C. Thompson, the
party bargainor & Vendor in the above instrument of writing, he being known
to me to be the party mentioned therein, and doth acknowledge the said instrument
of writing to be his act & deed:  And also on the same day
of personally appears Francis P. Phelps, the bargainee or Vendee, & makes
Oath that the consideration expressed in the said instrument of writing was
bona fide & truly paid as therein set forth.  In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand on the day & year first above written.
                                                                               Charles Corkran.

Rec.d the 1.st day of January 1851 of Francis P. Phelps the sum of one
dollar in lieu of a stamp on this Bill of sale.
                                                                Wm Jackson   Clk


William Frazier                      Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that
Ex.d    from        62½            the following Bill of sale was recorded on the
Tho. H. Wrightson Adm.r      3.d day of January in the year 1851, To wit:
                                             Know all men by these presents, that I, Thomas H.
Wrightson, administrator of Joshua Wrightson, of Dorchester County & State
of Maryland, for & in consideration of the sum of Five hundred dollars,
current money, to me in hand paid by William Frazier, of Dorchester County
and State of Maryland, I have granted, bargained & sold, and by these
presents do grant, bargain & sell, unto the said William Frazier,
his heirs & Assigns, the following Negro Man, named, John Allen,
aged about twenty five years, slave for life, and sound in body & mind.
To have and to hold the said Negro Man named John Allen, aged
about twenty five years, as above bargained & sold, unto the said
William Frazier, his heirs, executors, Administrators & Assigns, against
me, the said Thomas H. Wrightson, Administrators of Joshua Wrightson &
hs and my heirs, executors & Administrators, and against all and every other
person or persons whatsoever, shall & will warrant and forever defend.
In testimony whereof I, Thomas H. Wrightson, Administrator of Joshua Wrightson,
have hereto set my hand and affixed seal this first day of January
Eighteen hundred and fifty one.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of         Thomas H. Wrightson   (seal)
Sam.l Abbott   Benjamin Abbott.

Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  On the 1.st day of January in the
year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty one, personally appeared
before me, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, the within named
Thomas H. Wrightson, Adm.r of Joshua Wrightson, and Acknowledged the
within Bill of sale to be his act and deed, according to the purport, true


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