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38 granted bargained and sold and by these presents do give grant bargain and sell unto the said R. H. Rawlings one negro Woman named Susan and her five children named as follows Mary Thomas Richard Martha & Reasin to have and to hold the said negro Woman Susan And her five children Mary Thomas Richard Martha & Reasin and their heirs forever which said negro Susan and her said children is now in the possession of the said R.d H. Rawlings and which said negro woman Susan and her said children Mary Thomas Richard Martha & Reasin I do hereby warrant and defend to the said Richard H. Rawlings and his heirs forever against me and my heirs and against all manner of persons that now claiming or to claim by through or under me. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal the 22.nd day of May 1845 her Witness Lewis Sutton Sr Gracey x Thompson (seal) mark At the foot of the foregoing was thus written to wit On this 22.nd day of May 1845 personally appear Gracey Thompson formerly Gracey Gray party bargained in the above bill of sale and acknowledged the above bill of sale or instrument of writing to be her act and deed and the property therein mentioned and thereby bargained and sold to be the right and estate of the within named R.d H. Rawlings party bargained also therein mentioned according to the purport true intent and meaning thereof and the acts of Assembly in such case made and provided Acknowledged before Lewis Sutton Sr Recorded the 20.th day of June 1845 Ex d d costs 56¼ cts Paid
by Eliza Miller at or before the sealing and delivery hereof the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged and in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of Maryland passed at December session eighteen hundred hundred and forty two Chapter two hundred and ninety three entitled an act to regulate conjugal rights as they regard property "Any maimed woman may become seized of any property real or of slaves by direct bequest devise gift purchase or distribution in her own name and as of her own property have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do |
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