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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 327   View pdf image
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on the said twenty fifth day of December in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred & seventy five, the said Eliza Jane on
the said twenty fifth day of December in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy seven, free, manumitted and
discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me, my Executors
or administrators and from all manner of claim or right of claim
of servitude or service, by me, my Executors or administrators forever:
And I do hereby declare, fix and determine that the state and
Condition of the issue that may be born of the said Negroes,
slaves named Ann, Sarah Melinda, Mary Amanda & Eliza Jane
before the dates at which they are severally set free by this Deed
shall be slaves untill such time issue shall arrive at the age
of thirty one years, and in case any such issue being females and their
female descendants shall have issue during their periods of service
then and in every such case the state & condition of such issue
shall be that of Slaves untill such issue shall arrive at the
age of thirty one years & then to be free.  In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this eighth day of
April in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty one.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of us
Sam.l Abbott      Samuel Abbott.                       W.m Frazier   (Seal)

                Maryland, Dorchester County, Sct:  Be it remembered
that on this Eighth day of April in the year of Our Lord 1851,
personally appears William Frazier, party to this instrument of
writing, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the
State of Maryland for the said County, and acknowledges the same
to be his Act and deed for the purposes there^with^in mentioned.
Acknowledged before                                 Sam.l Abbott   J. P.


Thomas K. Carroll J.r      Be it remembered that the following Bill
Ex.d       from      65        of Sale was recorded on the 8.th day of April 1851.
Hugh Nield                     {Stamp}   Know all men by these presents that I
                                       {50 cts}   Hugh Nield, of Dorchester County in the
State of Maryland, for and in consideration of the sum of one thousand
dollars, current money, to me in hand paid by Thomas King Carroll J.r
of Dorchester County & State of Maryland, at & before the sealing and
delivering of these presents, the receipt whereof I, the said Hugh
Nield, do hereby Acknowledge, have granted, bargained & sold, and by
these presents do grant, bargain & sell unto the said Thomas King
Carroll J.r, his Executors, Administrators & Assigns, the Negroes herein
after mentioned and described, that is to say, Negro man Fortune,
Negro Woman Lucy, Negro Woman Leah, Negro Girl Anna,
Negro Girl Minty; all of which said Negroes are slaves for life,


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