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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 312   View pdf image
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DeWit C. Handley               Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that
Paid  Ex.d  from    62½        the following Bill of Sale was recorded on the
John B. Marshall Exec.r       13.th day of January A. D. 1851, To wit:
                                            Know all men by these presents that I, John B.
Marshall, Executor of William Piercy, of Dorchester County & State of Maryland,
for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty five dollars
and seventy five cents, current money, to me in hand paid by DeWit
C. Handley of Dorchester County & state of Maryland, have granted,
bargained & sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain & sell, unto the
said DeWit C. Handley, his heirs and Assigns, the following Negro
Boy called Abraham Atkinson, servant for three years from the first
of the present month, he being now about the age of thirty five years, slave
for the term of three years afs.d and sound in body & mind:  To have and
to hold the said Negro boy Abraham Atkinson, aged about thirty five
years as above bargained & sold, unto the said DeWit C. Handley, his
heirs, executors, Administrators and Assigns, against the said William
Piercy, his heirs, and me Jno B. Marshall, my heirs, executors & administrators,
and against all & every other person or persons whatsoever, shall and will
warrant and forever defend.      In testimony whereof I, John B.
Marshall, Executor of William Piercy, have hereto set my hand and
affixed seal this 13.th day of February Eighteen hundred & fifty one.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the     
presence of James Rea                              John B. Marshall Exec.r   (seal)
                                                                 DeWit C. Handly             (seal)

Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:
On the thirteenth 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 John B. Marshall, Executor of
William Piercy, and acknowledged the within Bill of Sale to be his Act
and deed, according to the purport, true intent & meaning of the same:
And at the same time came before me; DeWit C. Handley, within mentioned,
and made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration
set forth in this Bill of sale is true and bona fide as therein set forth,
according to the true meaning of the Act of Assembly of 1846, Chapter 271,
made & provided.      Sworn & Acknowledged before      James Rea

Deliv.d April 21 1851 to D. C. Handley


Thomas H. Wrightson      Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that the
Ex.d    from        62½      following Bill of sale was recorded on the 16.th day
William Frazier                of January A. D. 1851, To wit:
                                       Know all men by these presents that I, William
Frazier of Dorchester County & State of Maryland, for and in consideration
of the sum of five hundred dollars, current money, to me in hand paid
by Thomas H. Wrightson, of Dorchester County & State of Maryland, have


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