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366 subscribed their names and affixed their seals on the day and year first above written Signed Sealed & delivered in presence of Andrew Ellicott Jur (seal) Nathan Warfield Eli Gaither Owen Cecil (seal) At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit State of Maryland Baltimore County Be it remembered That on this nineteenth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred & forty four before the subscriber a Justice of the peace for said County personally appeared Andrew Ellicott Junior and Owen Cecil and acknowledged the foregoing indenture to be their respective act & deed Acknowledged before N Warfield Exd d 4½ 62 Recorded the 1st day of November 1844 Know all men by these presents that I William Watts of Anne Arundel County in the State of maryland for and in consideration of the sum of seven hundred and seventy five dollars Current money to me in hand paid by Thomas J Brice and John Brice of the aforesaid County in the said State at and before the sealing and delivering of these presents the receipt whereof I the said William Watts do hereby acknowledge have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto the said Thomas J Brice and John Brice their Executors administrators and assigns the following Negroes to wit: one negro woman named Harriet aged about 30 years and her two sons George aged about 13 years and Lewis aged about 3 years all and singular which said negroes are now in the possession of the said Thomas J Brice and John Brice To have and To hold all and singular the said negroes above bargained and sold or mentioned and intended so to be to the said Thomas J Brice and John Brice their Executors administrators and assigns for ever and I the said William Watts for myself my heirs Executors and administrators all and singular the said negroes unto the said Thomas J Brice and John Brice their Executors administrators and assigns against me the said William Watts my Executors and administrators and against all and every other person or persons whatsoever shall and will warrant and for ever defend by these presents of all and singular which said negroes I the said William Watts have put the said Thomas J Brice and John Brice in full possession by delivering to them the said Thomas J Brice and John Brice one dollar at the sealing and delivery of these presents in the sum of the said negroes hereby bargained and sold or mentioned and intended to be unto their the said Thomas J Brice and John Brice as aforesaid In Witness whereof the said William Watts has hereunto set his hand and seal this twenty Eighth day of October one thousand Eight hundred and forty four (Signed) |
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Anne Arundel County Court, Chattel Records, 1838-1845
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