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59 Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of The words for life in the 1.st page being first interlined John W Bourke On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit State of maryland Anne Arundel County to wit On this seventeenth day of October 1839 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the state of maryland aforesaid in and for the County aforesaid the within Matilda Bourke administratrix aforesaid and acknowledged the aforegoing Bill of sale or Instrument of writing to be her act and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof Exd d d Abner Linthicum chd .65 5 Recorded the 28th day of October 1839 Know all men by these present that I Thomas J Laurence of Anne Arundel County for the purpose of Compromising and adjusting a certain Controversy which has arisen between me and one William Hardesty of Calvert County and in Consideration of a release and abandonment of by the said William of all claims and demands against me by the said William in right of his wife Elizabeth Hardesty and of the sum of one dollar Current money to me in hand paid by John Beckett of Calvert County at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto the said John Beckett his Executors administrators and assigns one negro woman named Nancy aged about twenty five years or thereabouts and her two Children Henry aged about two years and Gassaway aged about nine months which negroes are now in my possession To have and To hold the aforesaid negroes with their Increase unto the said John Beckett his Executors administrators and assigns to his and their only proper use and behoof in trust Nevertheless that he and they will hold and employ the said negroes and every of them and their increase to the sole and seperate use of the said Elizabeth wife of said William Hardesty of Calvert County during her natural life and free from the Controul of her present and any future husband and from and after her death then in trust for the use and behoof of such person and persons such estate or estates as the said Elizabeth by her last will and testament or any writing in the nature of a last will and testament signed in the presence of one or more witnesses shall limit or appoint and for want of such appointment then in trust for the Child or Children of the said Elizabeth if them or any them living and if then is or are now such then in trust for the person or persons who shall or may be her legal personal (representative) |
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Anne Arundel County Court, Chattel Records, 1838-1845
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