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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 127   View pdf image
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do hereby release from slavery liberate manumit
and set free my negro slave Benjamin
Allen Chew aged twenty eight years or thereabouts
and able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and Maintenance and
him the said Benjamin Allen Chew I do declare
to be henceforth free manumitted and
discharged from all Manner of service for
servitude to me my executors or administrators
forever.  In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal
on this twenty second day of December in
the year eighteen hundred and fifty five
signed sealed and delivered
        in presence of us     George W. Dobbin   (seal)
R. A. Dobbin J.r
George L. Dobbin
                                     state of Maryland
Howard county to wit.  on this twenty
second day of December eighteen hundred
and fifty five before me the subscriber
a justice of the Peace of the state aforesaid
in and for the county aforesaid
personally appeared George W. Dobbin and
acknowledged the within Instrument
of writing to be his act and deed
                               Jno. Z. Worthington J. P.
Received on the aforegoing Instrument of
writing when presented for record one
dollar in lieu of stamp under the act
of 1846 ch 61.            W. H. Worthington clk
Received to be recorded on the 26.th day of
December 1855 same day recorded and
examined per               W. H. Worthington clk


S. Clark Atkinson
    Bill of sale to
L. Coryell Ward
In trust
     Know all men by these presents
   that I samuel Clark
  atkinson of Howard county
 in the state of Maryland and
justly indebted unto samuel
Champion of the District of Columbia in the
sum of two hundred dollars with interest
from December Anno Domini 1850 or thereabout.
Now therefore for and in consideration
of one dollar by Louis Coryell Ward


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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
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