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323. whole premises, hereby bargained and sold, or mentioned & intended to be so, unto him the said W.m H. Mills as aforesaid. In Witness whereof I have set my hand & seal this 19.th day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty one. Witness John D. Stevens William Mills (seal) Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit: On this 19.th day of March 1851, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, for the County and State aforesaid, came William Mills and Acknowledge the foregoing & within Bill of sale to be his Act & deed for the true intent & meaning of the same, according to the Act of Assembly in such cases made & provided. Witness John D. Stevens J. P. I do hereby certify that William Henry Mills appeared before the subscriber and made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the within is a bona fide sale and for no other purpose. Witness my hand & seal this 19.th day of March 1851. John D. Stevens J. P. John Brohawn Be it remembered that the following Bill Paid from Paid 65 of sale was recorded on the 31 day of Sarah B. Dunnock March 1851, To wit: Know all men by these presents that I, Sarah B. Dunnock, of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, for and in consideration of love & affection and the sum of of one cent to me in hand paid by son John Brohawn at & before the sealing of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledge, I, the said Sarah B. Dunnock, have granted, bargained & sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain &^ sell unto the said John Brohawn, his Executors, Administrators & Assigns, my Negro Boy John Wesley, aged about four years, a slave for life. To have and to hold the said Negro Boy, above bargained & sold, or mentioned or intended so to be, to the said John Brohawn, his Executors, Administrators or Assigns; all ^and singular^ of which said Negro, I the said Sarah B. Dunnock have put the said John Brohawn in full possession by delivering to him, the said John Brohawn the said Negro hereby bargained & sold. In testimony whereof I, the said Sarah B. Dunnock have hereunto set my hand & seal this 29.th day of March 1851. Signed, sealed & delivered in the Sarah B. Dunnock (Seal) presence of Barzillai Slacum State of Maryland, Dorchester County sc. Deld to John Brohawn July 19th 1851. |
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