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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 18   View pdf image
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for myself my heirs, Executors, or administrators, the said negro woman & her child, unto the said
Noah J. Rawleigh his executors, administrators and assigns, against me the said James L.
Colston my executors, administrators, and against all person Claiming by through or under
me, shall and will forever warrant and defend and I the Said James L. Colston have put
the said Noah J. Rawleigh in full possession of the said negro woman & her child
In witness whereof I the said James L. Colston have hereunto set my name & affixed my
seal this 13th day of September Anno Domini Eighteen hundred & fifty two
Signed Sealed and delivered                                                      James L. Colston   (Seal)
          in presence of
                      Charles Corkran J. P.
State of Maryland Dorchester County Sct                                       Be it Remembered and it is
hereby Certified that on this 13th day of September Anno Domini Eighteen hundred & fifty two
before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for the County aforesaid
personally appeared James L. Colston he being known to be to be the person who is named
and described as, & professing to be the party grantor or vender in the foregoing bill of Sale and doth
acknowledge the said indenture or instrument of writing to be his act and deed and also at the
same time appears the within mentioned Noah J. Rawleigh the vendee and makes oath that
the Consideration therein expressed is true & bona fide as therein set forth In testimony whereof
I have hereunto Subscribed my name on the day and year aforesaid
                                                                                                       Charles Corkran J. P.


Joel Cornwell             Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Bill
    Exd   from              of Sal was received and recorded on the 22nd day of September 1852 to wit:
Washington Rumbly               Know all men by these presents, That Washington Rumbly
of Dorchester County and State of Maryland, for and in Consideration of the sum of one hundred
and twenty seven dollars and nine Cents lawful money of the united States, in hand paid by Joseph
Cornwell at or before the Sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged;  Have granted, bargained and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain
and sell, unto the said Joel Cornwell his Executors, Administrators and assigns, one Brown
mare named Dove, one yoke oxen, 1 Ox Cart  Seventy five barrels of Corn more or less twenty
Bushels wheat 1 Cow and Calf 1 lots top & Blade fodder 1 Bed bedstead & Covering & two
shoats All of which property I have this bill of sale to the said Joel Cornwell to secure him
him against lost of the above named sum or any part thereof and it is further understood and
agreed that when said Rumbly shall well and truly pay to the aforesaid Cornwell the amount
above specified ($127.09) the aforesaid Cornwell shall deliver up to said Rumbly the property
above mentioned provided the amount above mentioned shall be paid on or before the 1st
day of January next otherwise a public Sale shall be held to satisfy the same for
Cash.  To Have and To Hold the said described brown mare, yoke oxen, Carts, corn
wheat Cow & Calf top & blade fodder Bed bedstead & Covering & shoats to the said Joel Cornwell
his Executors, Administrators and assigns forever; and he the said Washington Rumbly
for himself Heirs, Executors and administrators, the said property unto the said Joel Cornwell
his Executors, Administrators and assigns, against him the said Washington Rumbly
his Executors and administrators, and against all and every other person or persons whatsoever
Shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents.
             In witness whereof; I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 20th day


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