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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 268   View pdf image
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268

Delivered
to Edward Renehan
for Wm Y
Harrison agt
Feby 16 1858
 Edward Renehan
    Bill of Sale
          to
John Andrews
 Know all men by these presents that
whereas I Edward Renehan of Howard
County State of Maryland ower for a
term of years of a certain Negro Boy
named Cornelius Say for fifteen years
                                 and six months from the fifteenth day of July Eighteen hundred
                                 and fifty six as pr Bill of Sale dated Fifteenth day of July
                                 A. D. 1856 from Ellen Linch to me recorded in Frederick County
                                 Court in Liber E S No 8 folios 625 & 626 of the Land Records Said Bill
                                 of sale binding said Edw.d Renehan not to take said Negro Boy
                                 out of the State of Maryland during the term aforesaid and Whereas
                                 the said Negro Boy Cornelius having subsequently absconded
                                 from the service of said Edward Renehan and to regain possession
                                 of him causing him the said Renehan considerable time and
                                 expense whereby he was induce to apply by petition to the
                                 Circuit Court of Howard County for permission to extend
                                 the Service of said Negro Boy Cornelius as well as to said
                                 Court to pass an order allowing said petitioner to sell him to
                                 some person in or out of the State of Maryland according to
                                 the provisions of the Act of 1833 ch 224 and as &c which extension
                                 of time of service said Circuit Court on the 12th of September
                                 1857 granted to said Edward Renehan as well as the authority
                                 to sell said negro Boy within or without the state to serve
                                 until the 15th day of July 1873 Eighteen hundred and seventy
                                 three & no longer
                                       Now Know Ye that in pursuance of the power and authority
                                 in me vested as pr the aforegoing mentioned order of Court
                                 I as owner of the said Negro Boy Cornelius in consideration
                                 of the premises and the further consideration of the sum of nine
                                 hundred dollars to me in hand paid at or before the execution
                                 of these presents by John Andrews of the parish of Iberville
                                 State of Louisianna the receipt whereof i do hereby acknowledge
                                 and am therewith fully satisfied Have bargained sold transferred
                                 and set over and by these presents do bargain sell transfer
                                 and set over unto the said John Andrews his Executors administrators
                                 and assigns the said Negro Boy Cornelius for the
                                 term aforesaid and as set forth in said order of Court being
                                 until the fifteenth day of July Eighteen hundred and Seventy
                                 three and no longer when the said Negro Boy shall then
                                 be set free from all manner of service to the said John Andrews
                                 his Executors administrators and assigns or to my self my Executors
                                 administrators or assigns or to any other person or persons
                                 whomsoever it doth shall or may concern in any manner
                                 whatsoever
                                             In Witness Whereof we have hereunto set our hands and

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