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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 244   View pdf image
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John Ross negro      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Deed of Manumission was
    √   from   xd         received and recorded on the 13th day of November Anno Domini 1856 to wit
Josiah J Meekins      I Josiah J. Meekins of Shelby County and State of Missouri do hereby manumit
                                and set free my negro man slave John Ross aged thirty seven years of dark color
stout made a resident of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland his freedom to Commence from the
date of these presents.  Witness my hand and seal this first day of September in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and fifty six
Test D. W. Tyler   William Andrews                                                      Josiah J. Meekins   (seal)

                                                       The State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:  Be it
remembered and it is hereby Certified that on this 1st day of September 1856 before me the subscriber
one of the Justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Dorchester County personally
appears Josiah J. Meekins he being known to me to be the person who is named and described as
signing and making the above acknowledgement and did sign seal and acknowledge the same
to be his act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned according to the acts of Assembly
in such case made and provided.
                                                    Acknowledged before and Certified by
                                                                                                                   D. W. Tyler


George Mister      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Bill of Sale was
√   from   xd          received and recorded on the 17th day of November Anno Domini 1856 to wit:
Nancy Creighton   I Nancy Creighton of Baltimore City and State of Maryland in Consideration
                             of Eight Hundred and sixty two Dollars paid me by George Mister of
Dorchester County and State aforesaid do hereby bargain and sell to the said George Mister the following
property to wit:  Negro Woman Jane Slacum aged about forty years and her two Children Margaret
Hester aged about four years and Sarah Elizabeth aged about one year as slaves for life
Witness my hand and seal this twenty seventh day of October Eighteen Hundred and fifty six
                                                                                                                  Nancy Creighton   (seal)

State of Maryland Baltimore City to wit:    I hereby Certify that on this twenty seventh day of October
Eighteen Hundred and fifty six personally appeared Nancy Creighton before the subscriber a Justice of the
Peace for Baltimore City aforesaid and acknowledged the foregoing Bill of Sale to be her act.
                                                                         Acknowledged before
                                                                                                                A. H. Penington J. P.

State of Maryland Baltimore City sct:
                               I hereby Certify that Augustine H Penington Esquire before whom the annexed
acknowledgment was made and who has thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a
Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore duly Commissioned and sworn
                In Testimony Whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of the Superior Court of Baltimore
[seal]        City this 27th day of October A. D. 1856
                                                                                                             Edw.d Dowling Clerk of the
                                                                                              Superior Court of Baltimore City

State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:
                                          I hereby Certify that on this fourteenth day of November Eighteen hundred
and fifty six personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for
Dorchester County George Mister the grantee named in the above Bill of Sale and made oath on the Holy Evangely of
Almighty God that the consideration set forth in the above Bill of Sale is true and bona fide as therein set forth


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