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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 270   View pdf image
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                                                                      270

Zebidee Harper, David Hardican
                                                    State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:  I hereby Certify
that on this fourth day of Aprill in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and fifty seven personally
appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for Dorchester County aforesaid Isaack
Baly and acknowledged the aforegoing Bill of Sale to be his act.
                                                                                                 Zebidee Harper


The State of Maryland                 Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Bond was received
√            from         xd                  and recorded on the 14th day of April Anno Domini 1857 to wit:
Robert H, Creighton & others      Know all men by these presents that we Robert H Creighton
                                                    Wm L. Meekins & Henry C. Woodland of Dorchester County in the State
of Maryland are held and firmly bound unto the State of Maryland in the full and just sum
of Two Hundred Dollars Current money of Maryland to be paid to the said State or its certain
Attorney to the which payment well and truly to be made and done.  We bind ourselves our
heirs Execrators and administrators in the whole an for the whole jointly and severally firmly
by these presents.  Sealed with our seals and dated this first day of January Eighteen hundred
and fifty seven.  Whereas, the County Commissioners for Dorchester County by virtue
of a supplement entitled "An additional supplement to the act to regulate Ferries have contracted
with the said Robert H Creighton keep the Ferry over a place Called the Narrows
on Hoopers Island and agree to allow the said Robert H. Creighton the sum of One
Hundred and fifty Dollars Current money for the same.  Now the Condition of
the above obligation is such that if the above bounden Robert H. Creighton shall well faithfully
and diligently keep the said Ferry over the place Called the Narrows on Hoopers
Island from the dawn of day light in the morning until the expiration of day light
in the evening each day from the first day of January 1857 until the first day of January
1858 and shall keep constantly and in good order a scow that will safely carry
three passengers and three horses at one trip with an able bodied and skilful hand
to attend the said Ferry and shall not charge or receive any greater price for services
than what is allowed by law.
Signed sealed & delivered                                            Robert H Creighton       (seal)
          in the presence of                                               William L. Meekins       (seal)
                               Robert W. Creighton                       Henry C. Woodland   (seal)

                                                                The above Bond & Sureties approved
by the County Commissioners for Dorchester County
April 14.th 1857                                       By Order Josiah Jump Clk to County Commissioners


The State of Maryland         Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Bond
√               from      xd         was received and recorded on the 14th day of April 1857 to wit:
John Brohawn & Others      Know all men by these presents that we John Brohawn
                                           Henry Gross & William L. Meekins of Dorchester County in the State
of Maryland are held and firmly bound unto the State of Maryland in the full and just
sum of Three Hundred Dollars Current money of the United States to be paid to the said State
or its certain Attorney to the which payment well and truly to be made and done we bind ourselves
our heirs Executors and administrators in the whole and for the whole jointly and severally
firmly by these presents.  Sealed with our seals and dated this first day of January Eighteen Hundred


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