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479 Ann Maxfield now about seventeen years old a bona fide slave for life said negro is sold with the distinct and explicit understanding and agreement that she is to be and remain in the State of Maryland and that she is neither to be taken sent carried nor in any way whatever by any person or persons removed out of the said State under the penalty of five hundred dollars to be paid to the said Tench Tiglhaman his heirs or assigns on demand should the said negro woman Mary Ann Maxfield ever be permanently removed without the limits of said State of Maryland. To Have and To Hold the said described negro woman Mary Ann Maxfield to the said Dorsey Stewart his executors administrators and assigns forever and I the said Tench Tiglhaman for myself my heirs executors and administrators the said negro woman Mary Ann Maxfield unto the said Dorsey Stewart his Executors administrators and assigns against me the said Tench Tiglhman my Executors and administrators and against all and every other person or persons whatsoever shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this second day of May eighteen hundred and fifty one Signed Sealed and Tench Tiglhman (seal) delivered in the presence of Dennis Griffith At the foot of the foregoing was thus written to wit State of Maryland Baltimore S. S. Be it remembered that on this second day of May 1851 before the Subscriber a justice of the peace for said City appears Tench Tiglhman and acknowledges the above instrument of writing to be his act and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof John L. Snyder State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Sct On this seventeenth day of May A. D. 1851 before the Subscriber a justice of the peace in & for the said County personally appeared Dorsey Stewart the grantee named in the aforegoing bill of sale and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the consideration therein set forth is true & bona fide as set forth sworn before Dennis Griffith |
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