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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 441   View pdf image
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Received to be recorded on the 20th day of April 1860 at 5 ock P M
Same day Recorded and Examined per
                                                       W. W. Watkins clk


Delivered
to William
Chapman
July 22.d 1863
 Thomas S Herbert
Bill of Sale to
William Chapman
 Know all men by these presents that
I Thomas S Herbert of Howard District
in Anne Arundle County in
in the State of Maryland for and in
                          Consideration of the Sum of Seven hundred dollars lawful money
                          of the within States to me paid by William Chapman of
                          Baltimore County in the State aforesaid at or before the sealing
                          and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged
                          have granted bargained and sold and by these
                          presents do grant bargain and sell to the said William Chapman
                          his executors administrators and assigns my two slaves
                          Dan and Oliver the former being about seventeen and the
                          latter about fourteen years of age to serve the said William
                          Chapman his executors administrators and ^or^ assigns the
                          former Dan until the tenth day of March which will
                          be in the year Eighteen hundred and sixty seven and the
                          latter Oliver until the tenth of March Eighteen hundred
                          and Seventy one; at which periods I do manumit and
                          set them free respectively if their conduct in the meantime
                          and before the arrival of those respective periods be not such as
                          to require them to serve a longer period by the determination
                          ^or Judgment^ of any Court or any Judge of any County Court or of
                          any Orphans Court of any County in the State aforesaid it
                          being expressly understood and agreed by and between the
                          parties hereto that this Bill of Sale is made on the agreement
                          and condition following that is to say that if the
                          said slaves or servants or either of them shall run away
                          or abscond or be guilty of theft or any other crime or
                          misdemeanor or shall commit acts of disobedience such
                          that they are not subdued by reasonable correction before
                          the respective terms above appointed for their becoming
                          free the said William Chapman his executors administrators
                          or assigns shall have the right and privilege of
                          taken them or either of them before the County Court or
                          Orphans Court of any County in said State or before
                          any of the Judges of either of said Courts to prefer his
                          or their complaint against the said slaves or servants
                          or either of them and give proof or evidence of their
                          misconduct in any respect and if in the opinion of such
                          Court or Judge the said slaves or servants or either of
                          them shall have been guilty of the charge preferred


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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
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