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177 the words "and William Bryan" on the 1.st line of the third page At the foot of the foregoing was thus written to wit Maryland Sct Anne Arundel County to wit Be it remembered that on this sixth day of March eighteen hundred and forty seven before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of the state of Maryland in and for Anne Arundel County aforesaid personally appear John Quynn Robert Welch of Ben and William Bryan and acknowledge the foregoing instrument of writing to be their acts and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof and the Acts of Assembly in such case made and provided And I hereby certify that the said John Quynn Robert Welch of Ben and William Bryan the persons making this acknowledgment are to my own knowledge the persons named and described as and professing to be the parties grantors in the aforegoing instrument of writing Acknowledged before W.m Glover Recorded the 18.th day of March 1847 Examined Deld costs 95 (State of Maryland stamp) ( one )
dollars lawful money of the United States received to be paid by note by John F. Bird of Anne Arundel County and State aforesaid at or 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 F. Bird his Executors Administrators and assigns one negro man named John aged about seventeen years of the property of Charles Waters late of the City of Baltimore dec.d as a Slave to serve until the first day of May eighteen hundred and sixty four (1864) and thereafter to be free and discharged from servitude agreeably to the form and effect of the last will & testament of the said declared the said negro being sold and conveyed by me as Executor and in virtue of the power and authority vested in me by said last & testament. To Have and To Hold the said described Negro man John for the term of years aforesaid but no longer to the said John F. Bird his Executors administrators and assigns as aforesaid In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the nineteenth day of March eighteen hundred and forty seven Signed sealed and delivered F. G Waters Exr of in the presence of Cha Waters decd (seal) |
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