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Anne Arundel County Court, Chattel Records, 1838-1845
Volume 817, Page 264   View pdf image
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of the County and State aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have
granted bargained sold and delivered and by these presents do grant bargain sell
and deliver unto the said Mary Pitts all my right title and claim unto her as my
negro slave which right title and claim together with his liberty and entire freedom
from me and my heirs I will warrant and defend unto her the said Mary Pitts
against me my Executors and administrators and against every other person or
persons whomsoever  In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed
my seal this 17 day of August Eighteen hundred and forty two
In presence of   Dorsey Jacob Witnesses            Louisa Williams   (seal)

       On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit

    Maryland A A County to wit  On this 26 day of June 1843 before me one of
the Justices of the peace in and for said County appears Louisa Williams and
acknowledged the within instrument of 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   Witness my hand                  Rob.t Boone
Exd d d
paid
40
2¼      Recorded 18 day of July 1843


                This Indenture made this the twenty fourth day of July in the
year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty three Between James Rawlings
of Anne Arundel County and State of maryland of the one part and William
Woodward of Baltimore City and County of the State of maryland of the other
part Whereas the said James Rawlings by his promissory note duly Executed
bearing date on the nineteenth day of July Eighteen hundred and forty three
and drawn on demand stands justly indebted unto the said William Woodward
in the sum of seventy two dollars and Eighty Cents Current money with interest
from the twenty fifth of Decr Eighteen hundred and forty two as will more fully
appear by reference to said promissory note  Now this Indenture Witnesseth
that the said James Rawlings in consideration of the debt or sum of seventy
two dollars and Eighty Cents Current money owing to the said William Woodward
as aforesaid and for the better securing the payment thereof with intrust to
the said William Woodward his Executors administrators or assigns according
to the condition of the said promissory note and also in consideration of the
further sum of five dollars Current money to him the said James Rawlings
by the said William Woodward in hand ^well and truly^ paid at and before the sealing and
delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledge by the said
James Rawlings hath granted bargained and sold released and confirmed and
by these presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said William Woodward
his Executors administrators and assigns the following property now in the
                                                                                           (possession)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Chattel Records, 1838-1845
Volume 817, Page 264   View pdf image
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