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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 209   View pdf image
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Thomas B. Sherman      Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that the
& Jacob Wilson             following Mortgage Bill of Sale was received and recorded
       √   from   xd           on the 16th day of April in the year of our Lord
John H. Hodson            one Thousand Eight hundred and fifty Six, to wit:
                                                        This Indenture made the 14th day of
April in the year eighteen hundred and fifty six between John H. Hodson of
Dorchester County and State of Maryland of the one part and Thomas B. Sherman
and Jacob Wilson of the Said County and State of the other part  Whereas the
said John H. Hodson owes and stands justly indebted to the said Thomas B.
Sherman and Jacob Wilson in the Sum of fifteen hundred dollars current
money and to secure the payment thereof is willing to execute these presents
Now this Indenture witnesseth that the Said John H. Hodson for and in
consideration of the premises and of the Sum of five dollars current money
to him in hand paid by the Said Thomas B. Sherman and Jacob Wilson
at and before the Sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt of which is
hereby acknowledged hath granted, bargained and sold and by these presents
doth grant bargain and sell unto the Said Thomas B. Sherman and Jacob
Wilson their executors administrators and assigns the negroes hereinafter
particularly mentioned and described that is to Say Negro woman Mariah
aged thirty three years a Slave for life, Negro Girl Frances Ann aged thirteen
years slave for life Negro Boy Tom aged eleven years slave for life  To Have
and To Hold the Said described negroes unto the Said Thomas B. Sherman and
Jacob Wilson their executors administrators and assigns to their own use and
behoof  Provided always and it is declared to be the true intent and meaning of
these presents that if the said John H. Hodson do and shall well and truly
pay or cause to be paid unto the said Thomas H. Sherman and Jacob Wilson the
full sum of fifteen hundred dollars current money with legal interest for
the Same on or before the fourteenth day of April 1857 then and in such
case these presents and every matter and thing therein contained shall cease
determine and be utterly void to all intents and purposes anything herein
contained to the contrary notwithstanding      In Witness whereof the said
John H. Hodson has hereto set his hand and seal the day and year above
written                                                                  Jno H. Hodson   (seal)
Signed Sealed & delivered
    in presence of                  S. W. Lecompte J. P.

State of Maryland Dorchester County, to wit:   Be it remembered and it
is hereby certified that on this 14th day of April in the year eighteen hundred
and fifty Six before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of the State of
Maryland in and for Dorchester county aforesaid personally appears John H.
Hodson he being known to me to be the person who is named and described as and
professing to be a party to the foregoing deed or indenture and doth acknowledge the
said indenture or instrument of writing to be his act and deed and at the same time also appeared
before me the mortgages in the said indenture named and made oath that the consideration
set forth in the said mortgage is true and bona fide as therein set forth.  In Testimony whereof I
hereunto subscribe my name on the day and year aforesaid            S. W. Lecompte   J. Peace


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