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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 71   View pdf image
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William D. Traverse      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the
    √   from   Exd           following Bill of sale was received and recorded on the 26.th day
Mary C. Traverse         of October 1853 to wit
                                               Know all men by these presents that I, Mary C. Traverse
of Dorchester County state of Maryland for and in Consideration of the sum of five hundred
dollars Current money to me in hand paid by William D. Traverse of Dorchester County
in the said state at and before the sealing and deliver^in^g of these presents the receipt
whereof I the said Mary C. Traverse do hereby acknowledge granted bargained and sold
and by these presents do grant bargain and sell, unto the said William D. Traverse his
Executors administrators and assigns the following negroes Hester Cornish aged about
twenty years Girl by the name of Rebecca aged three years boy by the name of samuel aged
2 months To Have and To Hold all and singular the said negroes to William D. Traverse
his Executors administrators and assigns forever and if the said Mary C. Traverse for
myself my heirs Executors and administrators and assigns against me the said Mary
C. Traverse my Executors and administrators and against all and every other person
or persons whatsoever shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents
of all and singular the said negroes to have and Put the said William D. Traverse in
full possession by delivering to him the said negroes at the sealing and deliver^in^g of these
presents in the name of the whole bargained and sold or mentioned and intended
to be so unto him the said William D. Traverse as aforesaid            In witness whereof
we set our hands and seals the 17 day of October 1853                      her
    Test Mary A. Cator      Thomas E. Cator                           Mary C. x Traverse   (seal)
                                                                                                         mark
                         Received October the 17th 1853 the sum of five hundred dollars in full
from William D. Traverse for the above negroes                                 her
                   Test            Thomas E. Cator                             Mary C. x Traverse
                                                                                                        mark

Dorchester County state of Maryland      Be it remembered that on this seventeenth
day of October 1853 before the subscriber A Justice of the peace for said County appears
Mary C. Travers and acknowledges the above instrument of writing to be her act and
deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof
                                     Acknowledged before me the subscriber
                                                                                                    Thomas E. Cator

State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:   Be it remembered that on the 26.th
day of October Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and fifty three, personally appeared
before the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the state of Maryland in and for the
County aforesaid William D. Traverse party grantee within named and made oath
on the Holy Evangely of Almighty god, that the Consideration set forth in said Bill
of sale is true and Bona fide as therein set forth      Acknowledged & sworn ^to^ before
                                                                                                   Charles Corkran J. P.

Received October 26.th 1853 of William D. Traverse the sum of one dollar in lieu of a
stamp on this Bill of sale  
                                                                                                    Francis H. Henry Clk

Delivered to William D. Traverse the 29th November 1853


Hugh Maguire                 Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Release of Mortgage was
    √   from  xd                 received and recorded on the 31st day of October 1853 to wit:
William W. Crawford      I, William W. Crawford of Dorchester County and State of Maryland do hereby Certify


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