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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 153   View pdf image
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day of April Eighteen hundred & fifty five before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of
............. the State of Maryland in & for Dorchester County aforesaid personally appeared Thomas Lambden
& Margaret his wife & Aaron Warfield they being known to me to be the persons who are named and described
as and professing to be the parties to the foregoing Bill of Sale or instrument of writing and do severally acknowledge
the said Bill of Sale or instrument of writing to be their respective act & deed the said Margaret Lambden
having signed and Sealed said Bill of Sale before me out of the presence and hearing of her husband
and the said Margaret Lambden being by me examined out of the presence and hearing of her said
husband whether she doth execute & acknowledge the Same freely and voluntarily and without being
induced to so so by fear or threats of or ill usage by her husband or by fear of his displeasure declareth
& saith that she doth.  In testimony whereof we hereunto subscribe our names on the day and year
aforesaid                        Acknowledged Before

And also at the Same time personally appeared Aaron Warfield & made oath on the Holy Evangely
of Almighty God that the Consideration therein mentioned is true & bona fide
                                  Acknowledged before                     W.m W. Pattison J. P.


Thomas Lambden & wife      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Deed of
Paid            To  xd                Manumission was received and recorded on the 16th day of April in the year
    Affa Stevens                     of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifty five to wit:
                                                                   To all whom it may Concern be it Known that we
Thomas Lambden & Margaret Lambden his wife of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland
for divers good Causes and Considerations we 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 our negro woman Afa Stevens being of the age of Twenty Seven years and able to
work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance and her the Said negro woman named
Affa Stevens we do declare to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all manner
of Service or Servitude to us our executors or administrators forever

                      In witness whereof we hereunto subscribe our names and affix our Seals this ninth
day of April Eighteen Hundred and fifty five
Signed Sealed & delivered                                                                     Thomas Lambdin     (seal)
    in the presence of                                                                                 Margaret Lambin   (seal)
             W.m W. Pattison      Jas. L. Bryan

State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:
             Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that on this ninth day of April in the
year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred & fifty five before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the
peace of the state of Maryland in & for Dorchester County aforesaid personally appeared Thomas
Lambden & Margaret his wife they being known to me to be the persons who are named & described
as & professing to be the parties to the foregoing deed of manumission & do severally acknowledge the
said deed or instrument of writing to be their respective act and deed the said Margaret Lambden
having signed and Sealed said Deed of Manumission before me out of the presence and hearing
of her husband and the Said Margaret Lambden being by me examined out of the presence and
hearing of her said husband whether she doth execute & acknowledge the same freely and voluntarily
and without being induced to do so by fear or threats of or ill usage by her husband or
by fear of his displeasure declareth and Saith that she doth In testimony whereof we hereunto subscribe
our names on the day and year aforesaid      Acknowledged before      W.m W. Pattison   J. P.


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