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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 277   View pdf image
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law that the Consideration in the said Mortgage is true and Bona fide as therein set forth
                                                                                                          Wm R. Tall (JP)

State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:
                               I hereby Certify that on this 14th day of May 1857 before the subscriber
a Justice of the Peace of the said State in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared
Uriah Maguire the Mortgagee named for the foregoing Mortgage and made oath in due form
of law that the Consideration in the said Mortgage is true and Bona fide as therein set forth
                                                                                                          Wm R. Tall   (JP)


Jacob Willey          Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Indenture was
√       from    xd      received and recorded on the 25th day of May Anno Domini 1857 to wit
Harriet Ann Cornish         In Dorchester County Orphans' Court Harriet Ann Cornish
                               a negro Girl of the age of six years the fifteenth day of October last
past comes into Court and it being represented to the Court that the said Harriet Ann Cornish
is not at service or learning a trade or employed in the service of her parents and that she
is without means sufficient for her maintenance or support; and the Court being satisfied
that such representation is true; and believing also that it would greatly conduce to the good of
the said Child that she should be put to learn some trade or useful business.

                The said Harriet Ann Cornish is therefore on this twenty fifth day of May in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven bound as an apprentice
by John H Hodson Zadock H. Rosse and Levin Jones Justices of the Orphans' Court for
Dorchester County unto Jacob Willey until she the said Harriet Ann Cornish shall arrive
to the age of sixteen years under the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of Maryland
passed December Session 1839 Chapter 35  And the said Jacob Willey being here
present in Court agrees to take the said Harriet Ann Cornish as an apprentice until she
shall arrive to the said age.   And the said Jacob Willey doth also on his part acknowledge
himself bound and by these presents doth contract promise and agree to teach the said
apprentice or cause her to be taught plain serving and housework and to supply her
with suitable clothing and maintenance during her apprenticeship and when free to give
her ten Dollars and two suits of clothes as freedom dues.  And the said Jacob Willey doth
further contract promise and agree to give the said apprentice in lieu of education the
sum of Fifteen Dollars when free in addition to the freedom dues above required to be given

                In Witness Whereof we hereunto subscribe our names and affix our seals to
this Indenture this 25th day of May A. D. 1857.
Signed sealed and delivered                                          Jno H. Hodson   (seal)   Judges of
                   in the presence of                                    Zadock H. Rosse  (seal)   the Orphans
                                        E. W. LeCompte                        Levin Jones   (seal)   Court for D. C.
                                                                                              his
                                                                                     Jacob x Willey    (seal)
                                                                                             mark


John D Parker      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Indenture
√      from   xd      was received and recorded on the 25th day of May Anno Domini 1857 to wit
Charles Ross                         In Dorchester County Orphans' Court Charles Ross a negro
                            boy of the age of three years the tenth day of June last past being brought
into Court; and it being represented to the Court that the said Charles Ross is not at service or
learning a trade or employed in the service of his parents and that he is without means sufficient


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