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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 231   View pdf image
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Fifty Six                                                                                  his
Signed sealed and delivered                                            Caleb x Todd         (seal)
    in presence of                                                                     mark
                            D. W. Tyler                                                      her
                                                                                        Elizabeth x Todd   (seal)
                                                                                                   mark

          The State of Maryland Dorchester county to wit
                      Be it Remembered and it is hereby certified that on this 10th
day of July 1856 before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of
the State of Maryland in and for Dorchester county aforesaid personally
appears caleb Todd and Elizabeth Todd his wife they being known to me
to be the party grantors named in the within and aforegoing Bill of
Sale and did Sign seal and acknowledge the Same to be their acts and
deed and delivered the Same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned
and the said Elizabeth Todd wife of Caleb Todd did Sign seal and acknowledge
the Same out of the presence and hearing of her said husband and
did acknowledge and declare that she does sign seal and acknowledge
the Same willingly and freely and without being induced to do so by fear
or threats of or ill usage by her said husband or fear of his displeasure
and on the same day before me the Justice aforesaid personally appeared
Major Todd grantee therein named in the aforegoing Bill of Sale and
made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration
mentioned in the within and aforegoing Bill of Sale is true and bona
fide as therein set forth acknowledged and sworn before      D. W. Tyler


John A. Hambleton &           Be it remembered and it is hereby certified
Thomas E. Hambleton Jr.      that the following Mortgage Bill of Sale
Paid            From   xd           was received and recorded on the 9th day of
Matthias Travers                   August in the year of our Lord 1856 to wit:
                   I Mathias Travers of Dorchester County Maryland
being now indebted to John A. Hambleton and Thomas E. Hambleton Jr.
trading under the name & firm of John A. Hambleton & Brother of Baltimore
city Maryland in the Sum of Three Hundred and Thirty one Dollars
and Eighty Six cents with interest from the Seventh day of August
Eighteen Hundred and fifty Six in consideration thereof do hereby bargain
and sell to the Said John A. Hambleton and Thomas E. Hambleton Jr.
trading under the name & firm of John A. Hambleton & Brother the following
property one negro man named Thomas aged about Twenty
three years a Slave to Serve until forty years of age Provided, that if
I the Said Mathias Travers Shall pay to the Said John A. Hambleton
and Thomas E. Hambleton Jr. trading under the name and firm of
John A. Hambleton & Brother the Said Sum of Three Hundred and
thirty one Dollars & Eighty Six cents with the interest thereon on or
before the first day of October next then these presents shall be void

             Witness our hands and seals this Eighth day of August Eighteen
Hundred and fifty Six                                                   M Travers               (seal)
Test   Charles Corkran                                          Thos. E. Hambleton Jr   (seal)
                                                      one of the firm of Jno. A. Hambleton & Bro.

Delivered to Thomas E. Hambleton Jr. August 11th 1856


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