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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 124   View pdf image
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forever defend by these presents of all and singular which said negroes I the said William Andrews Sr.
have put the said William Andrews my son in full possession by delivering to him the same at the sealing and
delivering of these presents in the name of the whole hereby bargained and sold or mentioned and intended
so to be unto him the said William Andrews my so as aforesaid

                         In witness whereof I the said William Andrews Sr. have hereunto set my hand and seal
this First day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty four
Charles Corkran                                                                                                William Andrews  (seal)

             State of Maryland Dorchester County Sct.
                                  Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that on this First day of August
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four before the Subscriber of the
Justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Dorchester County aforesaid personally appears
William Andrews Sr. he being known to me to be the person who is named and described as and professing
to be a party to the foregoing deed of Indenture or Bill of Sale and doth acknowledge the said
deed of indenture or instrument of writing to be his act and deed.  In testimony whereof I hereunto
Subscribe my name on the day and year aforesaid
                                                                                                                Charles Corkran

1854 August 1st Received of M.r William Andrews the Sum of one dollar in lieu of a Stamp
on this Bill of Sale                                                                     F. J. Henry Clerk


Mary Jones                      Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that the following Manumission
√   To     xd                      was received recorded on the 4th day of August 1854 to wit:
Henry Macer &                       To all whom it may concern, be it known, that I Mary Jones of Dorchester
Hagar Jenkins (negroes)   County in the State of Maryland for divers good causes and Considerations me thereunto
                                        moving 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 Henry Macer being of the age of thirty
years and my negro woman Hagar Jenkins being of the age of thirty years both of them able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance and them the said Henry Macer & Hagar Jenkins I do declare to be free as follows
Henry Macer on the 1st of January 1860 and Hagar Jenkins on the 1.st of January 1857 to be thenceforth free
manumitted and discharged from all manner of Service or Servitude to me my Executors or administrators forever

                In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and my seal affixed this 3.d day of August in the year of
our Lord 1854                                                                                                                     Mary Jones   (seal)
Witness.   W.m Rea   W.m F. Pattison

Maryland Dorchester County to wit:
                            Be it remembered that on this 3d day of August 1854.  Then came before me the
undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County Mary Jones known to me as the identical Mistress
named within and acknowledged the within deed of Manumission to be her act and deed according to the acts of
Assembly in such Case made and provided
                                                                  Acknowledged before      W.m F. Pattison


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