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ability well and truly execute the trust reposed in me as inspector of primary schools for the county without favor or partiality Sworn before me this 19th May 1834 O. H. Owings Reuben Warfield J. P. for How.d Coty Rd to be recorded on the 26th day of May 1834 same day recorded & examined per W. H. Worthington clk
liberate and set free his negro girl Priscilla to take effect from and after the expiration of fourteen years from the first day of January Eighteen hundred and forty five when the said Priscilla would have attained the age of twenty years reserving to himself and his representatives in the mean time the use and services of the said Negro girl; and did also ^in the said deed^ fix and dertermine the state and condition of the issue which might be born of the said negro girl during her servitude. And whereas the legal ownership as expression of the said negro girls is now in Anna Maria Hopkins as one of the heirs and legal representatives of the said Richard P. Snowden deceased. Now know all men by these presents that the said Anna Maria Hopkins for and in consideration of the sum of eighty dollars to her in hand paid by Wilson McBee (now and for many years past a bona fide resident of the state of Maryland) hath bargained sold and transferred and by these presents doth bargain sell and transfer unto the said Wilson M.cBee his executors administrators and assigns all her the said Anna Maria Hopkins right and interest in and to the said negro girl for and during the period or term of servitude |
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