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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 200   View pdf image
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C. Bennett and Mary his Wife James H. Mills and Lydia M his Wife for ourselves our heirs Executors
and administrators all and singular the said negroes Maria and Martha and other the premises and the
said Rebecca Wheeler her executors administrators and assigns against us the said Henry J. Hubbard
Thomas C. Bennett and Mary his wife, James H. Mills and Lydia M. his wife our 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 the said Henry J. Hubbard. Thomas C. Bennett
and Mary Bennett his wife James H. Mills and Lydia M. Mills his wife have hereunto set their
hands and seals this fifteenth day of January Eighteen hundred and fifty six.
Signed sealed and delivered                                                            Henry J. Hubbard     (seal)
       in the presence of                                                                     Thomas C. Bennett   (seal)
                         James N. Wright J. P.                                             James H. Mills         (seal)
                                                                                                       Mary A. Bennett      (seal)
                                                                                                       Lydia M x Mills        (seal)

                                                             State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:  Be it
remembered and it is hereby Certified that on this fifteenth day of January Eighteen hundred
and fifty six before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State
aforesaid personally appeared Henry J. Hubbard Thomas C. Bennett & James H. Mills parties
to the within Bill of Sale and acknowledged the same to be their act respective act and deed
At the same time personally appeared before me the Justice aforesaid the said Mary Bennett
wife of the said Thomas C. Bennett and Lydia M. Mills wife of the said James H. Mills
and out of the presence and hearing of their respective husbands did sign seal and execute
the within and aforegoing Bill of Sale and acknowledge the same to be their act and deed
And the said Mary Bennett and Lydia M. Mills being by me privately examined apart
from and out of the hearing of their respective husbands whether they do execute and make
their acknowledgment of the same Bill of Sale willingly and freely and without being induced
to do so by fear or threats of or ill usage by their respective husbands or fear of their displeasure
acknowledge that they do execute and make their acknowledgment of the same Bill of Sale willingly
and freely and without being induced to do so by fear or threats of or ill usage by their
said husbands or fear of their displeasure.  And I do further Certify that of my own knowledge
I am satisfied that the said Henry J. Hubbard Thomas C. Bennett and Mary Bennett his
wife James H. Mills and Lydia M. Mills his Wife who make the above acknowledgments
are the same persons who are named & described as and professing to be parties grantors in the
within and aforegoing Bill of Sale.  At the same time and place also appeared before me
Rebecca Wheeler the party grantee within named in the said Bill of Sale and made oath
that the Consideration set forth in the said Bill of Sale is true and bona fide as therein
set forth.   In Testimony Whereof I hereunto subscribe my name on the day & year aforesaid
                                                                                                    James N. Wright J. P.

Received the 26th day of January 1856 of Rebecca Wheeler the Sum of one dollar in lieu of
 Stamp on this Bill of Sale                                                                  Thomas J. Henry Clk

Bill of Sale deld to Joseph A. Spedden Feby 14th 1857


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