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156 the foregoing Bill of sale or Instrument of writing & doth acknowledge the said Bill of sale or Instrument of writing to be his act & deed In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name on the day and year aforesaid Exd d d Acknowledged before Saml H Hamilton chd .94.cts 8 Recorded the 7th day of February 1842 This Indenture made this tenth day of February in the year one thousand Eight hundred and forty two between Somerville Pinkney Trustee as herein after mentioned of the one part and James F Purvis of the other part whereas by a decree of the Court of Chancery of the state of maryland bearing date the twenty first day of December and made on a cause then depending in said Court wherein Thomas Allein & others are Complainants and Joseph G Hutton and others are defendants the said Somerville Pinkney was appointed a trustee and authorised and empowered to sell and dispose of at public sale certain negroes in said decree mentioned and in pursuance thereof the said Somerville Pinkney did on the twenty fourth day of January after due notice sell and dispose of at public sale to the said James F Purvis the following negroes to wit Juliet aged about Eighteen years and about five feet high Priscilla aged about twenty years and about two years and whereas the said date has been duly ratified by the Chancellor and the purchase money fully paid and satisfied and the said Somerville Pinkney in consideration of the above recited premises and of the sum of eight hundred and fifty nine dollars to him in hand paid hath granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said James F Purvis his Executors administrators and assigns the aforesaid negroes named Juliet Priscilla and James Henry To Have and To hold the said negroes above mentioned unto the said James F Purvis his Executors administrators and assigns forever In Witness whereof the said Somerville Pinkney Trustee as aforesaid hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written Signed sealed & delivered in the Somerville Pinkney (seal) presence of Wm Glover Trustee At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit State of maryland Anne Arundel County to wit On this 10 day of February 1842 personally appears Somerville Pinkney before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County and acknowledges the within instrument of writing |
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