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488 day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one between me the said Stephen Beard Senr of the one part and my wife Betty H. Beard of the other part to wit negro woman Eliza aged about thirty years negro girl Matilda aged about thirteen years negro girl Mary aged about six years and negro boy Thomas aged about two years for and during their respective terms of periods of servitude therein mentioned that is from the date hereof until they shall have respectively attained the age of thirty years and also all my right and interest in and to the issue to be born of said female negro during the terms or periods of servitude for & during their terms or periods of servitude to have and to hold upon the trust and for the purposes declared and fully set forth in the agreement aforesaid all my right and interest in and to the said negro for and during their aforesaid terms or periods of servitude and hereby bargained and sold to the said Nicholas Brewer jr his executors administrators and assigns together with all & every the issue which the said several female negroes may have during their aforesaid terms or periods of servitude for & during the terms or periods of servitude of such issue. In Witness whereof we the said Stephen Beard Senr and the said Nicholas Brewer jr have hereunto subscribed our names and affixed our seals this first day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty one Signed Sealed and delivered Stephen Beard (seal) in the presence of J. W Hunter Nichs Brewer jr (seal) At the foot of the foregoing was thus written to wit Be it remembered that on this first day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty one before the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for Anne Arundel County personally appeared Stephen Beard senr the party grantor & Nicholas Brewer jr the party grantee in the annexed instrument of writing and acknowledge the same to be their act and deed Acknowledged before J. W. Hunter |
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