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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 381   View pdf image
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2d day of December 1851.  State of Maryland Dorset County to
wit  To all whom it may concern be it known that I Mary
Ennalls of Dorchester County in the state of Maryland for divers
good causes and considerations me thereunto moving have released
from slavery, liberated manumitted and and set free and by these
presents do hereby release from slavery, liberate manumit and set
free my negro man named Levin Jolly being of the age of forty
years and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance
and him the said Levin Jolly I do declare to be henceforth
free manumitted and discharged from all manner of service
or servitude to me my executors and administrators forever.  In
testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this 2d day
of December A. D. 1851
Witness E. C. Sulivane                           Mary Ennalls   (Seal)
             James Rea

                               State of Maryland Dorchester County to
Wit:  Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that on this
2d day of December A. D. 1851 Before the subscriber a justice of the
peace of the state of Maryland in and for Dorchester County aforesaid
personally appears Mary Ennalls she being known to me
to be the person who is named and discribed as and professing
to be the party to the foregoing Deed of Manumission and doth
acknowledge the said indenture or Instrument of writing to be
his act and deed; In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand
and seal on the day and year aforsaid
                                                          James Rea


Richard K. Conner      Know all men by these presents that I
       Exd   from           certify That the following Bill of sale was
James W. Connor        received and recorded on the 8th day of December
Paid                             1851.  Know all men by these presents
that I James W Conner of Dorchester County for and in consideration
of the sum of one hundred and seventy four dollars and thirty five
Cents Current money to me in hand paid by Richard R Conner of
the County of Ann Arundel at and before the sealing and delivery of these
presents the receipt of which I do hereby acknowledge and myself to
be therewith fully satisfied contented and paid  I the said James W
Connor have granted, bargained, sold, conveyed and transfered and by
these presents do grant, bargain, sell, convey and transfer unto the said
Richard R. Conner his heirs and assigns, the following personal property
Goods and Chattels to wit:  one sorrel Horse one Horse Cart and harness
one wood Cart three Cows fifty barrels of Corn More or less, one
Plow, one harrow, one saddle and bridle, four Beds, Bedsteads and furniture,
Three thousand pounds of Blade Fodder, More or less fifteen hundred pounds
of top Fodder more or less two Doz chairs, five Tables, one bureau, two


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