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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 177   View pdf image
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By the County Commissioners  Dorchester County
                                     June 26 1855 This Bond approved
                                                          By order Test   William Rea clerk C. D. C.


Richard Keene             Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that the following
paid   from   xd             receipt was received and recorded on the 3d day of September
Solomon F. Kirwan      in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred
Administrator               and Fifty five To wit:
                                                       Received December 15th 1854 of John Richard
Keene the Sum of Five hundred and ninety five Dollars for negro Boy Jacob
Slave for life sold by me as Administrator of Saml. J. Meekins Decd.  By order
of the Orphans Court on the 14 day of December 1855 as reference thereto will more
fully show              Given under my hand                                 Solomon F. Kirwan
$595                                                                                      Admr. of Samuel J. Meekins Decd

Delivered the 3d day of September 1855
    to Samuel A. Meekins


Edward G. Sturgeon and others      Be it remembered and it is hereby certified
          √      From                           that the following Mortgage was received
The Farmers and Merchants           and recorded on the 10th day of September
       Steam Boat Company              1855 To wit:
                                                                      This Indenture made this 19th
day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty four between the
Farmers and Merchants Steam Boat Company of Nanticoke River of the first
part and Edward G. Sturgeon and James Murray and Henry R. Hazlehurst
of the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland of the Second part
Whereas the said party of the first part is indebted to the said parties of the
second part in the sum of twelve Thousand dollars being the unpaid portion
of the purchase money of the Steamboat Kent which by Bill of Sale of Even
date herewith has been Conveyed to the said party of the first part which
sum it is the desire of the party of the first part to secure the payment of
cotemporaneously with the execution of the said Bill of Sale wherefore these
presents are Executed  Now this Indenture witnesseth that the said parties
of the first part for and in consideration of the premises and of the sum
of five dollars paid at and before the execution ^of^ these presents the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained and sold assigned
and conveyed and by these presents do bargain and sell assign and convey
unto the Said parties of the second part.  The Steam Boat called the Kent
which was built in Baltimore in the year eighteen hundred and fifty four
and which is enrolled according to law at the port of Baltimore as appears
by the enrollment thereof dated on the fifth day of July in the year eighteen
hundred and fifty four and numbered one hundred and fifty Three Together
with her engines and machinery Tackle boats apparel and furniture
To Have and To Hold the said Steam Boat Kent with the appurtenances
as aforesaid to the said parties of the second part their Executors administrators
and assigns in the proportion of three fourths to the said Ed. G. Sturgeon
and one fourth to the said Murray and Hazlehurst as tenants in common

Sent to William T. Vickers September 11th 1855 by John Serman


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