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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 349   View pdf image
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349

Joel Blew
  Manumission to
Martha Wettington
 I Joel Blew of Howard County and
State of Maryland do hereby manumit &
set free my negro woman Martha Wettington
about twenty years of age dark complexion
in and about five feet high) her freedom to commence from
and at the end of sixteen years from this date that is to say
on the fifth day of April Eighteen hundred and seventy five
and I do hereby manumit and set free all her issue to the
latest generation from and after they respectively arrive to the
age of thirty five years
                               Witness my hand & seal this fifth day
of April Eighteen hundred and fifty nine
    Test                                          Joel Blew      (Seal)
    Jasper M Berry
    Charles Soper
                     State of Maryland Howard County Sct
Be it remembered that on this fifth day of April Eighteen
hundred and fifty nine before me the subscriber a Justice
of the Peace of the said State in and for said county personally
appeared Joel Blew and acknowledged the above instrument
of writing to be his act and deed
                                                 Charles Soper
Received to be Recorded on the 19th day of April
1859 at 8½ Oclock A. M. same day Recorded & Examined pr
                                                  W W Watkins clk


Joel Blew
  Bill of Sale to
Joseph M Berry
 I Joel Blew of Howard County and state
of Maryland in consideration of four hundred
dollars paid by Jasper M Berry a
resident of Baltimore City to me do hereby
bargain and sell to the said Jasper M Berry my negro woman
named Martha Whittington a slave for the term of sixteen years
from this date (being now about twenty years of age) The said
negro woman being a slave for the term of sixteen years from
the date hereof and no longer and the said Joel Blew being
entitled to the said slave for the whole of said term.  It is
also understood and agreed that he issue to the latest generation
are entitled to freedom at the age of thirty five years
    It is further understood and agreed that the said Jasper M
Berry and his representatives are only entitled to the said Martha
and her issue for the respective terms above mentioned
named and if the laws of the State of Maryland will not
allow the said negro woman or her issue to enjoy their
freedom at the end of their respective terms that she
and they shall then revert to the said Joel Blew and



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