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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 104   View pdf image
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in my name lawfully do or Cause to be done in and about the premises by virtue of these presents as also to hire
out or sell my negro boy Stansbury and to receive the wages or the money arising from the sale (as the case
may be) to pass receipts for the hire or Execute a Bill of Sale for the said boy (Stansbury) and the same
shall be to all intents and purposes valid as though I was personally present to execute the Same and to retain
all said monies until further directions from me or my heirs           In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name this 17.th day of April 1844
Charles Corkrane               James Rea

       State of Maryland Dorchester County To wit:
                         Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that on this 17.th day of April in the year of
our Lord Eighteen Hundred and forty four before the Subscribers Two Justices of the peace of the state of
Maryland in and for Said County Personally appeard Love Ross She being Satisfactorily proved to us to
be the person who is named and described in the within Power of Attorney Contained in the foregoing
deed or indenture and by virtue and in pursuance of the power and authority thereby granted doth
acknowledge the said indenture or instrument of writing to be the act and deed of the Party thereto
In testimony whereof we hereunto subscribe our names on the day and year aforesaid
                                                                                              Charles Corkran      James Rea


Negro Frank      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following manumission
√   from  xd        was received and recorded on the 25.th day of March 1854 to wit:
Minos Adams                          To all whom it may Concern be it Known That I Minos Adams
                          of Dorchester County State of Maryland For divers good Causes and Considerations
me thereunto moving as also in further Consideration of one dollar current money to me in hand paid have
released from Slavery liberated manumitted and set free and by these presents do hereby release from Slavery
liberate manumit and set free my negro man named Frank being the age of Forty years and able to
work and gain Sufficient livelihood and maintenance and him the said Negro man named Frank
I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all manner of Servitude or
Service to me my Executors or administrators forever

       In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 24 day of March in
the year of our Lord 1854
Signed Sealed and delivered                                                               Minos Adams  (seal)
    In the presence of
                Daniel Cannon
                      Minos Adams Junr

Received on the day of the date above mentioned the sum of one dollar Current money it being the full
Consideration money within mentioned
Minos Adams Junr            Daniel Cannon                                                            Minos Adams   (seal)

    Dorchester County to wit:               On this 27th day of March ^1854^ personally appears Minos Adams party
to the within 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 within mentioned and
the negro man within named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged from all services to him or to
any claiming under him and to be free and manumitted according to the act of assembly in such cases
made and provided         Acknowledged before                  Daniel Cannon J. P.


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