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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 264   View pdf image
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against all and every other person or persons whatsoever shall and will warrant and forever defend
by these presents.  In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and seal this twenty first
day of January Eighteen hundred and fifty seven (1857)
Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of                                      Joel Cornwell      [seal]
                                        Josiah Kerr
                                                                      Dorchester County ss:  Be it remembered that on this
twenty first day of January 1857 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County
appears Joel Cornwell and acknowledges the above Instrument of writing to be his act
and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof.
                                                                      Acknowledged before
                                                                                                                A. H. Hurley J. P.

Dorchester County State of Maryland sc.  Be it remembered on this 5th day of February
in the year A. D. Eighteen hundred and fifty seven before the subscriber a Justice of
the Peace in and for the County aforesaid appeared Charles C Cornwell party grantee
to the within Bill of SAle and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God
that the consideration therein named is true and Bona fide.
                                                                   Sworn before
                                                                                           A. H. Hurley J. P.


Amos Bowdle         Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Bill of Sale
Paid  From xd         was received and recorded on the 16th day of February 1857 to wit
William L Hearn      I Wm L. Hearn of Dorchester County and State of Maryland in Consideration
                              of Seven Hundred Dollars paid me by Amos Bowdle resident
of the same County and State do hereby bargain and sell to the said Amos Bowdle my
negro slave Garrison for the ballance of the term he is to serve the said negro having
been manmitted by Deed executed by Mary Ford on the 18th day of August 1847
being therein stated to be seventeen years of age and to serve until he is forty one years
of age and then to be free and the said Wm L. Hearn being entitled to said slave for
the ballance of his term of servitude by Bill of Sale from Dr Wm B LeCompte on
the 14th day of August 1848.  Witness our hands and seals this 16th day of February 1857
                                                                         (Vendor)            Wm L. Hearn       (seal)
                                                                         (Purchasor)            Amos Bowdle   (seal)

State of Maryland
Dorchester County to wit      I hereby Certify that on this 16th day of Feby 1857 before
the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for Dorchester County and State of Maryland
Personally appeared Wm L. Hearn and Amos Bowdle and acknowledged the
foregoing Deed to be their act.
                                                                                     Charles Corkran J. P.


Samuel M. Traverse      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Bill
√         From                 of Sale was received and recorded on the 9th day of March 1857 to wit
Edward R. Goslin          Whereas by virtue of an order of the Honorable Judges of the Orphans
                                     Court of Dorchester County passed the 20th day of February
Anno Domini 1856 Edward R. Goslin Guardian for Mary A Brown and Sarah T.
Brown Minors was ordered authorised and empowered to make sale of a certain negro boy

1859 Feby 19-6+ delivered to Saml M Traverse


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