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51 forever. Provided always and these presents are upon this condition that if the said Philip C. Clayton his executors or administrators shall and do well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said Philip Clayton his executors administrators or assigns the said full sum of four hundred dollars current money with legal interest for the same on or before the first day of January next then and in such case these presents and every matter and thing herein contained shall cease and be utterly void to all intents and purposes any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding In Witness whereof the said Philip C. Clayton have hereto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of W.m Glover P. C. Clayton (seal) At the foot of the foregoing was thus written to wit State of Maryland Anne Arundel County to wit On this 5.th day of August in the year 1845 personally appeared Philip C. Clayton before the subscriber a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for the County aforesaid and acknowledged the aforegoing instrument of writing to be his act and deed Acknowledged before W.m Glover Recorded the 7.th day of August 1845 Ex d d costs 75cts paid
Nicholas Watkins of the same County in the State of Maryland of the other part. Whereas by a decree of the High Court of Chancery of the State aforesaid bearing date the eighth day of February in the year eighteen hundred and forty five passed in a cause wherein the State of Maryland by the Attorney General is complainant and the President Directors and Company of the Farmers Bank of Maryland and others are defendants the abovenamed Alexander Randall was appointed a trustee and authorised and empowered to sell and dispose of certain negroes slaves for life in the proceedings in said cause mentioned That in pursuance of the said Decree the said Alexander Randall hath sold and disposed of to the said Matilda Watkins |
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