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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 267   View pdf image
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Simms aged about twelve years negro Girl Ellen Simms aged about eight years negro Girl
Nanna aged about four years & negro child Mary Simms aged about eighteen months all
the above negroes are slaves for life and are part of the same negroes that Benjamin B. Harrison
Conveyed to Reuben Tall by Bill of Sale bearing date the 26th day of January 1850
and recorded among the Chattel record Books for Dorchester County reference being had
thereto will more fully and at large appear.  Provided, that if I the said Benjamin B.
Harrison shall pay to the said David W Tyler the said sum of Five Hundred and
seventy five Dollars with the interest thereon on or before the thirteenth day of April next
then these presents shall be void.  Provided also and it is hereby agreed between the parties
to these presents that if default shall be made by the said Benjamin B. Harrison his
Executors or administrators in payment of the said sum of Five Hundred and seventy five
Dollars or any part thereof and interest thereon at the time specified in these presents then
and in such case it shall be lawful for the said David W. Tyler to sell all the property
specified in these presents or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay said sum
of Five Hundred and seventy five Dollars and interest thereon and expenses of said
sale in the following manner the said David W. Tyler shall sell the said above
named negroes at Public Sale at the Court House door at Cambridge giving ten
days notice in one of the newspapers printed in Cambridge and the proceeds arising
from said sale to be applied first to the payment of the expenses of said sale then
to the payment of the sum of Five Hundred and seventy five Dollars with the interest
thereon as specified in these presents or so much thereof as may be due at the time
of such sale and the surplus if any to ^by^ be paid over to the said Benjamin B. Harrison
his Executors administrators or assigns.  Witness my hand and seal this twenty third day
of March Eighteen Hundred and fifty seven.
Test   Wm R Tall                                                                           B. B. Harrison   (seal)
          Josiah Jump
                               State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:  I hereby
Certify that on this twenty third day of March Eighteen Hundred and fifty seven
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for Dorchester
County aforesaid, Benjamin B. Harrison and acknowledged the foregoing Bill
of sale to be his act.   At the same time and place aforesaid personally appeared before
me David W. Tyler Mortgagee within named and made oath on the Holy Evangely
of Almighty God, that the Consideration set forth in this Mortgage is true & bona
fide as therein set forth                              Acknowledged & sworn before
                                                                                                 Wm R. Tall
I hereby release the above Mortgage.  Witness my hand and seal this 27th
day of July 1857.   Test      F J Henry Clk                     D. W. Tyler      (seal)


John A Scott                   Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following
√      from   xd                 Mortgage Bill of Sale was received and recorded on the 28 March 1857
John Jolley free negro      I John Jolly Coloured man of Dorchester County Maryland
                                       being now indebted to John A. Scott of Dorchester County
Maryland in the sum of Six Hundred Dollars with interest from January 1 last past
in Consideration thereof do hereby bargain and sell to the said John A Scott the following
property now in the farm where I now live purchased of said Scott Three yoke
of Steers and one odd steer two Cows & one Calf two steer and one bull yearling seven old
sheep and five lambs two sows & ten pigs two Shoats three ox Carts one waggon & gear one


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