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371 our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before me David C Wilson Esqr the mayor of the said City of (seal) Wilmington Mahlon Betts Samuel N Pusey and Samuel Harlan Junr the said Betts Pusey and Harlan company the firm of Betts Pusey and Harlan named as the Grantor in the foregoing Indenture who severally acknowledged the said Indenture to be her act and deed respectively and desired that it might be recorded as such In Testimony whereof I the said mayor have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the public seal of said City to be affixed the day and year aforesaid 83 D C Wilson mayor 6½ Recorded the 22nd day of November 1844 This Indenture made this twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty four Between William Taylor of Anne Arundel County in the State of maryland of the one part and Joseph Williams a coloured man of the county and state aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars and twenty Cents current money of the United States to the said William Taylor in hand paid at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents by Joseph Williams aforesaid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged the said William Taylor hath granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant bargain and sell unto him the said Joseph Williams his Executors administrators and assigns a negro Girl named Rosetta about twenty two years of age to serve until she attains the age of thirty one years To have and To hold the said Negro Girl for her said term of service unto the said Joseph Williams his Executors administrators and assigns to the only proper use and behoof of him the said Joseph Williams his Executors administrators and assigns In Witness whereof the said William Taylor and the said Joseph Williams have hereto set their hands and affixed their seals the day and year first herein before written Signed Sealed and delivered Wm Taylor (seal) in the presence of his J W Hunter Joseph x Williams (seal) mark On the back of the aforegoing was thus written State of maryland Anne Arundel County Be it remembered that on this twelfth day of November Eighteen hundred and forty four personally appear William Taylor party grantor mentioned in the within deed or instrument of writing and Joseph Williams party grantee also therein mentioned before the subscribers Justices of the (peace) |
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Anne Arundel County Court, Chattel Records, 1838-1845
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