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24 Warfield 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 Cases made and provided S Gambrill chd .63cts 5 Recorded the 5th day of March 1839 Know all Men by these presents that I Marshal Pool of Anne Arundel County in the state of maryland for and in Consideration of the following premises to wit that Fielder Gray shall remain with and serve me during my life time free of all charge for wages or shall pay me the said Marshall Pool the sum of three hundred dollars Current Money in lieu thereof and also for the further Consideration of the sum of one dollar Current money by the said Fielder Gray to me in hand paid at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof I the said Marshal Pool doth hereby acknowledge have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto said Fielder Gray my negro woman named Sophia wife of said Fielder Gray aged about twenty five years of age To have and To hold the said negro woman for the term of five years from the time of my death together with all the children she may have after the date of these presents to serve if males to the age of twenty one years and females to age of Eighteen years and after the Expiration of the above named periods the woman and Children as they shall severally arrive at the termination said periods to be free Provided Nevertheless that the said Fielder is not to have possession of the said negro woman until after the period of my death or on the payment of the abovenamed three hundred dollars In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal on this seventh day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine Signed Sealed and delivered in his presence of Marshall x Pool (seal) Levin R Mills Jn.o L Moore mark On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit State of maryland Anne Arundel County Sc.t On this seventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace of said State in and for County aforesaid Marshall Pool known to me to be the party to the within Instrument and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed for the purposes therein named (Acknowledged) |
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