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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 326   View pdf image
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mortgaged by me, the said John Brown to secure to the said
Sarah Woolford the payment of the money aforesaid.  In Witness
whereof I the said John Brown have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal this seventh day of April A. D. 1851.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the              his
presence of James Rea                      John x Brown   (Seal)
                                                               mark

                          Dorchester County, To wit:  on the seventh
day of April A. D. 1851, before me the subscriber, one of the
Justices of the Peace in & for said County, appears John
Brown and acknowledges the aforegoing instrument of writing
to be his act & deed, according to the true intent & meaning
thereof and the Act of Assembly in such case made & provided:
And also at the same time personally appeared Sarah Woolford
and made Oath that the consideration set forth in the within
Bill of sale is true & bona fide as therein set forth.
                                                                James Rea.


William Frazier      Be it remembered that the following Deed
Exd   To      85      of Manumission was recorded on the 8.th
Sundry Negroes    day of April 1851, To wit:
                             To all persons whom it doth or may concern:  Be
it known that I, William Frazier, of Neck District in the County
of Dorchester & State of Maryland, for divers good causes & considerations
me thereunto moving, do hereby release from slavery, liberate, manumit
and set free the following Negroes, Slaves, belonging to me and now
in my possession, To wit:  one Negro Woman called Ann to be free
from & after the twenty fifth day of December which will be in the
year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty three   one
Negro Girl called Sarah Melinda to be free from & after the
twenty fifth day of December which will be in the year of Our
Lord one thousand eight hundred & seventy three   One other Negro
Girl called Mary Amanda to be free from & after the twenty fifth
day of December which will be in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred & seventy five    Also one other Negro Girl
Eliza Jane to be free from & after the twenty fifth day
of December which will be in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred & seventy seven, And the said Negro slaves named
Ann, Sarah Melinda, Mary Amanda and Eliza Jane, I do
declare to be thenceforth, that is to say, the said Ann from & after
the said twenty fifth day of December in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred & fifty three, the said Sarah Melinda
on the said twenty fifth day of December in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred & seventy three, the said Mary Amanda



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