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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 118   View pdf image
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day light for the residue of the year commencing the tenth day of May 1854 and ending twelve
months thereafter and shall keep constantly and in good order a scow that will Safely carry three
passangers and their horses at one trip with one able bodied skillful hand to attend the said ferry
and shall not charge or receive any greater price for ferriage than what is allowed him by law then
the above obligation to be void; otherwise of full force and virtue in law
Signed Sealed and delivered                                                         William H. Mills           (seal)
in the presence of                                                                              James B. Mills         (seal)
                            James Smith                                                            John R. Dunnock   (seal)
                          By the County Commissioners for
                                                 Dorchester County May 18 1854
                                                                              The within Bond Examined & approved
                                                                                                                       By order
                                                                                                                               W.m Rea clerk


Edward W. Lecompte                  Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Certificate
his certificate of negroes  x.d      of negroes was received and recorded on the 1st day of June 1854 to wit:
                      √                                   I Edward W. Lecompte of Cambridge Dorchester County Maryland
do hereby certify that the following is a true and correct list of the negroes belonging to and in the possession
of my wife Mary Elizabeth Lecompte (formerly Mary Elizabeth Wall) at the time of my marriage with her
to wit:  On the Seventh day of December Eighteen hundred and fifty three containing as near as practicable the
names and ages of the said negroes filed for record under the provisions of the act of the General assembly of
Maryland passed December session 1842 Chapter 293 Section 7 (see the will of Levin H. Wall deceased
recorded in the office of the Register of Wills for Dorchester County)

             Viz.
1 - Negro woman
2 - Do          man
3 - Do            do

4 - Do      woman
5 - Do           man
6 - Do           boy

7 - Do           girl
8 - Do            do
9 - Do           boy
10 - Do           do
11 - Do         girl
12 - Do         boy
Ann Kiah
Jacob Woolford
Thomas Hicks
to Serve until December
Harriet Cornish
William Penn Kiah
John Johnson
         to Serve until December
Dorothy Hicks
Mary Woolford
Henry Kiah
Aaron Kiah
Mary Ann Cornish
Lewis Cornish
aged about
    "       "
    "       "
26th
aged about
    "       "
    "       "
26th
aged about
    "       "
    "       "
    "       "
    "       "
Born Nov. 12th
48 years
45     "
33     "
1855
26 years
23     "
19     "
1870
16 years
15     "
15     "
12     "
  7     "
1853

             In witness Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed my Seal on this the first day
of June in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty four.
Signed and Sealed                                                                    Edward W. Lecompte   (seal)
in the presence of
                   Josiah Jump
                      John H. Willoughby


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