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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 417   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Howard County to Wit:
    On this tenth day of January in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and Sixty before me the subscriber a
Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for
Howard County personally appeared William Baldwin
and acknowledged the aforegoing Instrument or Indenture
to be his act
                                                       Charles Soper
Received to be recorded on the 17th day of January 1860 at 9½
Oclk AM Same day recorded and Examined per
                                                       W W Watkins clk


Delivered
to Mr Mudson
May 15 1860
 Act of Incorporation of the
Friendship M E Church
In Howard County
 To all whom these presents
shall come greeting:
Know ye that that the male
members of the Methodist Episcopal
                           Church above the age of twenty one years and
                           residing within the county of Howard and State of
                           Maryland and attached to the Congregation or Church
                           Commonly Called and Known by the name of Friendship
                           Church having been officially notified of the fact
                           that the board of Trustees of the aforesaid Church is extinct
                           by reason of the death removal Etc of the original
                           Trustees and of such successors as may have been appointed
                           and finding that the fifth section of the act passed April
                           the Fifth one thousand eight hundred and Thirty Nine chapter
                           CCCLXXXVIII make it lawful for a new board of
                           Trustees in such case to be created and being desirous
                           of electing certain of their members as such board of Trustees
                           to be constituted a body politic under and in pursuance
                           of an act of the General Assembly of Maryland entitled An
                           Act to incorporate certain persons in every Christian Church or
                           Congregation in this State" and of the Supplement thereto did
                           assemble together on the Twenty Eighth day of November in
                           the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
                           nine at the Friendship church (near the Spring Known as the
                           Rattle Snake Spring) being the place ordinarily used for public
                           meetings of said church agreeably to public notice
                           given the preceeding Sabbath and with the Reverend Henry
                           Clay Westwood Minister did ^duly^ elect according to law and the
                           Common usage of the church the following Eight Sober
                           and discreet persons to Wit.  Christian Close Samuel Gaither
                           John Henry Windsor James Harban Philip Cissel Samuel
                           Thomas Carr Horatio Johnson and Allen Scrivner
                           to act as trustees of Said Church together with the Said



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