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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 236   View pdf image
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John W. Brohawn           Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that the following Mortgage Bill of Sale
& Thomas Wallace         was received and recorded on the 18th day of August Anno Domini 1856 to wit:
    √      from         xd      This Mortgage made this twenty ninth day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen
Benjamin McWilliams      hundred & fifty six Witnesseth Whereas John W. Brohawn and Thomas Wallace
                                       have this day entered into a Recognizance before the Circuit Court of Dorchester
County in the penalty of One Hundred Dollars each for the appearance of Benjamin McWilliams before
said Court at the November Term to answer a charge or Indictment before said Court pending for stealing
a Certain lot of Bacon the property of one William Briley and for his continuing so to appear from day
to day until he is legally discharged by said Court.  Now this instrument Witnesseth that for and Consideration
of the premises & the sum of Five Dollars also due the said Brohawn & Wallace for expenses incurred
at the instance of the said McWilliams the said Benjamin McWilliams & Sarah Ann McWilliams
his Wife do grant unto the said John W. Brohawn and Thomas Wallace all those several tracts of
Land Called "Buck Hill" & "Phillips Regulation" situated lying & being in the County aforesaid
and in the Election District No 1 & embracing the farm where the said McWilliams & wife now reside
Containing about sixty acres of land more or less also one yoke of oxen 2 Cows one Calf 9 head
of Hogs and four Beds.  Provided that if the said Benjamin McWilliams shall appear before
the Circuit Court of Dorchester County to be held in Cambridge on the second Monday of November next
to answer the charge or Indictment aforesaid & shall so continue to appear from day to day until he
shall be legally discharged by the said Court & in all respects save harmless & from all loss whatsoever
the said John W. Brohawn & the said Thomas Wallace by reason of having entered into said Recognizance
for the said McWilliams then this Mortgage to be void   Witness our hands & seals
Test   William Russell                                                                        his
          Wm W Robinson                                                      Benjamin x McWilliams   (seal)
                                                                                                       mark
                                                                                                        his
                                                                                        Sarah Ann x McWilliams   (seal)
                                                                                                        mark

                                        State of Maryland Dorchester County sct:  I hereby certify that on this
seventh day of August in the year Eighteen hundred & fifty six before the subscriber a Justice of the
Peace of the State of Maryland in & for said County Personally appeared Benjamin McWilliams and
at the same time appeared ^also^ Thomas Wallace and made oath that the Consideration therein mentioned is
true & bona fide as therein set forth
                                                                                                                      Wm W Robinson J. P.


David W Tyler                Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Mortgage
    √   From   xd              Bill of Sale was received and recorded on the 27th day of August 1856 to wit
Benjamin B. Harrison      This Indenture made this sixteenth day of August in the year of our
                                       Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six between Benjamin B Harrison
M. D. of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland of the one part and David W Tyler
of said County and State of the other part.  Whereas the said Benjamin B. Harrison by his Bill
Obligatory duly executed bearing date on the sixteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred
and fifty six is indebted unto the said David W Tyler his Executors administrators and assigns in the
just and full sum of Four Hundred and forty six Dollars with legal interest thereon which said
Bill Obligatory is payable six months after the date thereof as by the same will more fully appear
Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said Benjamin B. Harrison in Consideration of the said debt
or sum of Four hundred and forty six Dollars owing to the said David W Tyler as aforesaid and for
the better securing the payment thereof with interest to the said David W. Tyler his Executors administrators
or assigns according to the tenner and effect of the said Bill Obligatory and also in Consideration of the


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