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191 consideration of the sum of four hundred and sixty five dollars lawful money of the United States in hand paid by Thomas Lee of Howard District 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 Thomas Lee his Executors administrators and assigns one negro man named Ben now about twenty one years of age of the property of Charles Waters late of the City of Baltimore decd as a slave to serve until the first day of January eighteen hundred and sixty one (1861) and thereafter to be free and discharged from all servitude agreeably to the form and effect of the last will and testament of the said deceased the said negro man being sold and conveyed by me as Executors and in virtue of the power and authority vested in me by said last will and testament. To Have and To Hold the said described Negro man Ben to the said Thomas Lee his executors administrators and assigns as aforesaid. In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this fifth day of December eighteen hundred and forty six Signed sealed and delivered F. G Waters Executor (seal) in the presence of of Chas Waters To Hanson Belt Thomas Lee (seal) At the foot of the foregoing was thus written to wit State of Maryland Baltimore City SS. Be it remembered that on this fifth day of December 1846 before the Subscriber a justice of the peace for said City appears F. G Waters Executor and Thomas Lee and acknowledges the above instrument of writing to be their act and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof Acknowledged before Recorded the 29.th day of April 1847 T. Hanson Belt
John B. Wells of the United States Army of the other part Whereas the said John S. Sellman owes and stands justly indebted to the said John B. Wells On his single bill duly stamped according to the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided in the sum of fifteen hundred and ninety dollars and forty six cents payable in two years from the tenth |
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