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118 administrators and assigns the said described property against me my executors and administrators and against all and every other person or persons whomsoever claiming the same or any part thereof In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 27th day of Feby 1841 Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of Chas Clagett (seal) R C Hardesty Richd Brashears At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit Maryland Anne Arundel County to wit On this 27th day of February 1841 before me one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County appears Charles Clagett and acknowledges the foregoing writing to be his act and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof and the act of assembly in such Case made and provided R C Hardesty chd 43 3 Recorded the 2nd day of March 1841 Know all men by these presents that I James Bryan of Queen Anns County in the State of maryland for and in consideration of the natural love and affection which I bear to my son William Bryan of the City of Annapolis in the said state have given And by these presents do give unto the said William Bryan a negro woman named Charity and her child named John Henry and which are now in the possession of the said James Bryan To have and to hold the said Negro woman and her said Child above given or mentioned and intended so to be to the said William Bryan his Executors administrators and assigns and which said negroes it is the intention and meaning of these presents shall be considered as slaves for life for the purpose hereinbefore mentioned In witness whereof the said James Bryan has hereto set his hand and seal this twenty seventh day of February Eighteen hundred and forty one Signed sealed and delivered in presence of J W Hunter James Bryan (seal) At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Sct Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that on this twenty seventh day of February Eighteen hundred and forty one before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace of the state of maryland in and for said County personally appears James Bryan he being known to me who is the person named and described as and professing to be a party to the foregoing Instrument of writing and doth acknowledge the same to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribe my name on the day and year aforesaid chd J W Hunter 38.cts 2½ Recorded the 17th day of march 1841 |
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