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now in the possession of Mrs John R. D. Thomas the wife of John R. D. Thomas of said County for nine hundred dollars To have and to hold the said negro slave for the uses and purposes which are particularly set forth in a deed form John R. D. Thomas and wife to the said Latrobe dated on the third day of March 1848 and recorded in the records of Baltimore County in Liber A. W. B. N.o 392 folios 353 &c and nine other In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of April 1857 Signed sealed and delivered in presence of Asbury Fisher (Seal) W.m H. Finlay Received to be recorded on the 15.th day of April 1857 same day recorded & exam.d per W. H. Worthington Clk
of Howard County and State aforesaid which is in full payment of my negro slave named Caroline of Copper Colour she being fourteen years old on or about the first day of December 1850 to serve untill she is thirty five years old and then to be free as now fully appears on reference to the last will and testament of Thomas John Bowie now on Record in the Office of the Register of wills of Montgomery County Maryland and also by order of the Orphans Court of Howard County and State of maryland where she was ordered and adjudged by said Court that the said Caroline is to serve one year longer that is untill the first day of December 1872 Eighteen hundred and seventy two as by reference to said order passed on the 17.th day of April 1853 which negro is a bona fide slave for the above named time |
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