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aforesaid which is in full payment of my negro slave name Caroline of copper colour she being fourteen years old on or about the first day of December 1850 to serve as a slave until 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 State of Maryland where she was ordered and adjudged by said Court that the said Caroline is to serve one year longer that is until the first day of December (1872) Eighteen hundred and seventy two as by reference to said order passed the 17.th day April 1858 which negro is a bona fida slave for the above named time the right and title of said slave I will forever warrant and defend against all claim or claims of any kind whatsoever for the period above mentioned. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this seventh day of December eighteen hundred and fifty eight (1858) Witness W. A. Loder Thomas Rowles (seal) Claudius Stewart (seal) Howard County State of Maryland S C Be it remembered that on this seventh day of November 1858 before me a justice of the Peace for said County appear Thomas Rowls and Claudius Stewart and acknowledge the above Instrument of writing to be their act and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof and at the same time appeared before me Claudius Stewart the grantee in the said Bill of Sale named and made oath that the consideration set forth in said Bill of sale is true and bonafida as therein set forth W.m A Loder J. Peace Received to be recorded on the 7.th day of December 1858 at 2¾ OClock P.M. same day recorded and examined pr. W. W. Watkins clk
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