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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 24   View pdf image
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aforesaid, at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof I the said
Thomas K. Smith do hereby acknowledge, have bargained, granted and sold and by these
presents do grant bargain and sell unto the said James R. Phillips, his executors, administrators
and assigns all my right, title, intent and Claim of the one third undivided part of the
following negroes hereinafter mentioned that is to say one third of a negro man named
Daniel aged about fifty years; one third part part of a negro man named Obediah aged about
thirty years and one other negro man named Charles aged about twenty three years all
slaves for life, all of which which negroes as above described are now in Dorchester County
Except negro man Obediah who is at present in ^the City of^ Baltimore and under the Control of the said
Thomas K. Smith   To Have and To Hold, the above described negroes or property
and other the premises, above bargained and sold, or mentioned and intended so to be to the said
James R. Phillips, his executors, administrators and assigns forever; and I the said Thomas
K. Smith, for myself my heirs, Executors and administrators, all and singular the said
negroes and other the premises unto the said James R. Phillips, his Executors administrators
and assigns against me the said Thomas K. Smith, my Executors and administrators,
and against ^all and^ every other person or persons whatsoever, Shall and will warrant and forever
defend by these presents of all and singular which said negroes, or other the premises, I
the said Thomas K. Smith, have put the said James R. Phillips in full possession of,
by delivering to him the said James R. Phillips, one of the aforesaid negro man called Charles
at the sealing and delivery of these presents, in the name of the whole premises hereby bargained
and sold, or mentioned or intended to be so unto him the said James R. Phillips as
aforesaid            In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
seal this 18th day of October in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty two (1852)
    Signed sealed and delivered
       in the presence of                                                         Thomas K. Smith   (seal)
                   O. P. Hooper

    State of Maryland Dorchester County Sct:      Be it remembered and it is hereby
Certified, that on this 18th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty two, before the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the state of Maryland in
and for Dorchester County aforesaid personally appears Thomas K. Smith, he being
known to me to be the person who is named and described as the party grantor to the
aforegoing Bill of Sale or instrument of writing, and doth acknowledge the within Bill of
Sale or instrument of writing to be his act and deed   In testimony whereof whereof I
hereunto subscribe my name on the day and year aforesaid
                                                                                              O. P. Hooper J. P.
Received the 27th day of October 1852 of James R. Phillips the sum of one dollar in lieu of
a Stamp on this Bill of Sale                                                                  Francis J. Henry Clk


Doct.r Joseph Weatherly      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following
    Exd      from                 Release of mortgage was received and recorded on the 4th day of November
John S. Staplefort            1852 to wit:

                                          This Indenture, made this 3.rd day of November in the year
of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty two between John S. Staplefort of the one part
and Joseph Weatherly of the other part whereas Samuel Burns by indenture of mortgage
bearing date on the 13th of March 1852, duly executed acknowledged, and recorded in the


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