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Anne Arundel County Court, Chattel Records, 1845-1851
Volume 818, Page 353   View pdf image
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                                     353

to the purport true intent and meaning of the same
                         Acknowledged before         Charles Corkran

State of Maryland   Anne Arundel County to wit   On this 15th day of June in the year
of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty nine personally appeared before me Thomas
J. Mezick and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration
set forth in this Bill of Sale is true and bona fide as therein set forth according
to the true intent and meaning thereof and the act of assembly in such case
made & provided              sworn before            J W Hunter

Maryland Dorchester County to wit   I hereby certify that Charles Corkran gentleman
before whom the aforegoing acknowledgment appears to have been made and who has
thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace of the
state of Maryland in and for Dorchester County duly commissioned and sworn
(Seal's)      In Testimony whereof I hereto set name and affix the seal of Dorchester County
(Place)      Court this 22d day of May 1849                        W.m Jackson Clk

       Received June 15 1849 one dollar for stamp duty on this instrument of writing
                                                                         Jos H. Nicholson Clk
Recorded on the 15th day of June 1849
Cost
$.75
paid


James H. Watkins of N.
                to
Bernard M. Campbell
 This Indenture made this tenth day of July eighteen hundred
and forty nine between James H Watkins of N of
Anne Arundel County and state of Maryland of the one
part and Bernard M. Campbell of the City of Baltimore
and state aforesaid of the other part whereas the said James H. Watkins of N. owing
and having in his possession a certain negro boy Richard a slave for a term of
years to serve the said James H Watkins of N. to the full time and expiration of
the twentieth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and fifty two then be free;
And whereas by reason of the bad conduct of the said negro boy in frequently running
away from the service of the said Watkins and on application of the said Watkins
by petition in writing to the Orphans Court of said county stating and proving said
conduct the said Orphans Court did on the nineteenth day of December eighteen
hundred and forty eight order and adjudge "that said negro boy Richard serve his
master and owner James H. Watkins one year in addition to his term of service, that
is that he serve until the twentieth day of March eighteen hundred and fifty three
in order to reimburse his master the said petitioner for losses caused by his running
away at difference times;"  And whereas the said James H. Watkins hath agreed
to sell said negro boy to the said Bernard M. Campbell with the view of his
being removed beyond the limits of said state as authorised to do by said order
       Now this Indenture witnesseth that for and in consideration of the premises
and of the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars in hand paid to the said


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Anne Arundel County Court, Chattel Records, 1845-1851
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