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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 162   View pdf image
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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 woman named
Anna Hooper being of the age of forty four years years and her two Children viz:  William
Abel Hooper aged about twelve years and Mary Jane Hooper aged about fourteen years
and abel to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance and her the said
negro woman Anna Hooper & children William Abel & Mary Jane I do declare to be
thenceforth free manumitted and discharged from all manner of service or servitude to me
my executors or administrators forever.               In Witness whereof the said William H.
Traverse has hereunto set his hand and seal this twenty Eighth day of May Eighteen hundred
and fifty five
Signed sealed & delivered                                                W. K. Travers   (seal)
    in the presence of
                W. Travers   John H. Travers

    State of Maryland Dorchester County sct
                         Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that on this twenty
Eighth day of May 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 appears W.m H. Travers he being known to me to be the person who is named
& described as and professing to be a party to the foregoing deed of Manumission and doth
acknowledge the said Deed or instrument of writing to be his act and deed.  In testimony
whereof I hereunto subscribe my name on the day and year aforesaid   W.m W. Pattison J. P.


James A. Stewart      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the
       √   from  x.d       following Bill of Sale was received and recorded on the
Harrison D. Barnett   9th day of June 1835 To wit:
& Eliza Rawleigh       (stamp)         Know all men by these presents that we Harrison
                                 ( one  )
D. Barnett & Eliza     (  Dol ) Rawleigh of Dorchester county and state of Maryland
for and in consideration of the sum of six Hundred Dollars to the said Harrison
D. Barnett in hand paid by James A. Stewart of same county & state the receipt
whereof we do hereby acknowledge have granted bargained and sold and by these
presents do grant bargain and sell unto the said James A. Stewart his heirs Exors
admrs. & assigns the following negro slave called "Caroline" a girl about sixteen years
of age and slave for life and sound in body & mind & now in the possession of the
said Harrison D. Barnett   To Have & to hold the said negro above bargained and
sold to the said James A. Stewart his heirs Exors & admrs. & assigns forever
             In Witness whereof we hereto subscribe our names & affix our seals this 6th
day of June 1855                                                                        H. D. Barnett           (seal)
Signed sealed and delivered                                                                  her
       in presence of                                                                   Elizabeth x Rawleigh   (seal)
                            Charles Corkran J P                                                mark

State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:   on this Sixth day of June in
the year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty five personally appears before me the subscriber
a Justice of the peace of the said state & county.  Harrison D. Barnett & Eliza Rawleigh


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