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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 323   View pdf image
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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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