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100 State of Maryland Dorchester County sct On this tenth day of March Eighteen hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me a justice of the peace of the the State of Maryland in and for Dorchester County aforesaid Brice J. Goldsborough and Rhoda Stevens the Seller and purchaser mentioned in the above Bill of Sale and Severally acknowledged the Bill of Sale aforesaid to be their act and deed and executed for the purposes therein mentioned Charles Corkran John Baker Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Bill √ from xd of Sale was received and recorded on the 13th day of March in the year of our A. R. Anderson & wife Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four to wit Know all men by these presents that we Alexander R Anderson and Amanda Anderson his wife both of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland for and in Consideration of the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars Current money to me in hand paid by John Baker of Said County and State at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof. We the said Alexander R. Anderson and Amanda his wife do hereby acknowledge, have granted, bargained and Sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell unto the said John Baker, his executors, administrators and assigns all and singular our right title and interest in and to one negro Boy named and Called Henry aged about twenty years of dark Chesnut Color and about five feet six inches in height which negro Boy was decreed by Barzilla Street to his wife to serve until the first day of January 1860 or until the said Negro Henry should attain the age of twenty six years and inherited by the said Amanda Anderson from her mother wife of said Barzilla Street for the term and period of Six years, beginning the first day f January 1834 and ending and being fully Complete the first day of January 1860 then next ensuing. To Have and To Hold the said negro Boy Henry above bargained and sold or mentioned and intended so to be for the said term or period or six years and no longer, to the said John Baker, his executors, administrators and assigns for the term of six years and no more, and we, the said boy Henry for the said term of six years and the said John Baker, his executors administrators and assigns against us the said Alexander R. Anderson and Amanda his wife our executors and administrators and against all and every other person or persons whatsoever Shall and will warrant and defend and by these presents do defend for the term of Six years of which said negro boy Henry We the said Alexander R. Anderson and Amanda his wife have put the said John Baker as aforesaid In witness whereof we have hereunto interchangeably set our hands and affixed our Seals this Twenty fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four Signed, Sealed and delivered A. R. Anderson (seal) in the presence of us Amanda M. Anderson (seal) John D. Stevens J. P. John Baker (seal) Edward R. Bramble J. P. State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit: Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that on this Twenty fifth day |
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