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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 388   View pdf image
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or qualification of any kind whatever by me which negro I warrant
to be perfectly sound & in a healthy condition & a bona fide slave
for the above named time & no longer said negro slave within to be
taken carried or sent now in any way whatever if any person or
persons removed without the limits of the State of Maryland the right
& title of said slave.  I will warrant and defend & guarantee against
all Claims of any kind whatever for the period above mentioned in
witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty
fourth day of May Eighteen hundred and fifty two      Test
                                                          William I Cowart       (seal)
Charles Corkran  J. P.                        William H Conaway   (seal)

Dorchester County State of Maryland To wit:   Be it remembered
that on this twenty fourth day of May 1852 before me the subscriber
a Justice of the Peace of said County & State aforesaid William I
Cowart & William H Conaway and acknowledged the within instrument
of Writing to be their act and deed, according to the true intent
and meaning thereof and at the same time Appeared before
me William I Cowart the grantee in the said Bill of Sale named
and made oath that the Consideration set fourth in said Bill of
Sale is true and Bona Fide as therein set fourth.
                                                                Charles Corkran

Received May 24th 1852, of William I Cowart the sum of one
dollar in lieu of a Stamp on this bill of Sale.
                                                                F. I. Henry   Clk

I hereby Certify that the above Bill of Sale was received and recorded
on the twenty sixth day of May 1852
                                                             F. I. Henry Clk


William Christopher      Received the following Bill of Sale on the 25th
Paid     from     Exd      of August and recorded it the same day
Alexander R Anderson               Know all men by these presents that I
                                   Alexander R Anderson of Dorchester County and State
of Maryland for and in consideration of the sum of Eleven hundred dollars
current money of Maryland to me in hand paid by William Christopher
at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged I the said Alexander R Anderson have
bargained and sold conveyed and transferred and by these presents do bargain
and sell, convey and transfer unto the Said William Christopher his heirs
and assigns forever, the following goods and chattels, to wit:  one lot of Cord
Wood Containing 500 cords more or less, one bay Horse, one four wheel Carriage
one yoak of steers, two Cows, 5 head of young Cattle more or less one ox Cart,
ten head of Hogs more or less, all my farming implements of every kind
and discription whatsoever the Crop of Corn now growing where I live


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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
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