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remembered that on this twenty sixth day of January Eighteen hundred and fifty four before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Mary Ross party to the above bill of sale and acknowledged the same to be her act and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof and at the same time and place appeared before me John P. Wall the grantee in the said bill of sale named and made oath that the consideration set forth in the said bill of sale is true and bonafide as therein set forth J. G. Worthington J. P. Received to be recorded on the 13th day of February 1854 same day recorded and examined per W. H. Worthington clk
by indenture dated the 10th day of November 1853 and recorded among the chattel records of Howard County in Liber E. P. H. N.o 2 fol 526 &c. did convey unto the said Michael Pue by way of Mortgage certain negro male slaves for life to wit negro Moses and negro Nace. And whereas the said parties of the first part have devised that the period of the redemption of the said negroes should be extended one year from and after the time mentioned in said Mortgage and for additional security have agreed to transfer unto the said Michael Pue an additional negro slave to wit: a boy named Grafton. Now this Indenture witnesseth that the said parties of the first part for and in consideration of the premises and for the securing of an additional loan of one hundred and fifty dollars by the said Michael Pue this day advanced to the said parties of the first part the receipt whereof they hereby acknowledge. And which is for the period aforesaid have bargained and sold and conveyed and by these presents do bargain and sell and convey unto the said Michael Pue his executors administrators and assigns the said negro boy Grafton slave for life aged about eleven years. To have and to hold the said boy Grafton slave for life unto the said Michael Pue his executors |
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