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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 338   View pdf image
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William Wingate          Be it remembered that the following Deed of
Ex.d       To      55      Manumission was recorded on the 17.th day of May 1851.
Negro Jane Stevens    To all whom it may concern:  Be it known that I,
& others                      William Wingate, of the Town of Cambridge, in
Dorchester County, in the State of Maryland, for divers good causes and
considerations me thereunto moving, have released from slavery, liberated,
manumitted & set free, my Negro Woman Jane Stevens, being of
the age of twenty four, to be free January ^the^ first Eighteen hundred & sixty
five, and her son Francis Stevens of the age of five years to be free
on the first day of January Eighteen hundred and eighty, and Jane's son
W.m Henry Charles Stevens of the age one year to be free on the first day
of January Eighteen hundred & Eighty five, and all subsequent issue
of the said Negro Woman, Jane Stevens which may be born of her
hereafter, shall be free when they respectively attain the age of thirty five
years:  And I do hereby declare the said woman Jane Stevens and
Boys Francis Stevens, William Henry Charles Stevens and the subsequent
issue of the said Woman Jane Stevens, to be thenceforth free, manumitted
and discharged from all manner of service or servitude to me my Executors
or Administrators, according to the times and terms as within & above
expressed, forever.  In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and
affixed my seal this fifteenth day of May Eighteen hundred & fifty one.
Witness   James Rea
Thomas Breerwood                                    William Wingate   (Seal)

State of Maryland, Dorchester County, Sc:  On the 15.th day of May
1851, then came before me a Justice of the Peace in and for Dorchester
County and State of Maryland, William Wingate and Acknowledged the
within deed of Manumission to be his Act and deed, according to the
purport, true intent and meaning of the same and the acts of Assembly
in such case made and provided.  Acknowledged before
                                                                            James Rea.


David Maraine                 Be it remembered that the following Bill of Sale
Ex.d   from      90             was recorded on the 28.th day of May 1851, To wit:
Benjamin M.cWilliams      Know all men by these presents that I, Benjamin
                                        M.cWilliams of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland,
for and in consideration of the sum of Fifty dollars, current money, to me in
hand paid by David Marain of Somerset County in the said State, at and
before the sealing & delivering of these presents, the receipt whereof I,
the said Benjamin M.cWilliams do hereby acknowledge, have granted, bargained
and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain & sell unto the
said David Maraine, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, all


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