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91 Arundel County aforesaid deceased do grant bargain and sell unto the said Thomas J Mezick his Executors administrators and assigns one negro man named Jim aged about nineteen years of dark complexion and belonging to the Estate of said Joseph M Tate and sold by me as administrator for the purpose of closing the estate aforesaid. To Have and To Hold the said negro Jim above bargained and sold or mentioned and intended so to be to the said Tho.s J Mezick his executors administrators and assigns for a term of ten years from the first day of January eighteen hundred and forty six to the first day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred fifty seven. And I the said Zachariah Merriken for myself my heirs executors and administrators the said negro Jim unto the said Thos H Mezick his executors administrators and assigns against me the said Zachariah Merriken my executors and administrators and against all and every other person or persons whatsoever shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents which said negro Jim I the said Zachariah Merriken have put the said Thos J Mezick in full possession by delivering to him the said Thos J. Mezick the aforesaid negro Jim to serve the aforesaid term of ten years and then to return unto the provision of the legal representatives of the aforesaid Joseph M Tate late of Anne Arundel County deceased as part and parcel of his estate at the sealing and delivering these presents in the name of the whole premises hereby bargained and sold or mentioned and intended to be so unto him the said Thos J Mezick as aforesaid. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this seventeenth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty six Witness Horatio S. Ridout Zachariah Merriken At the foot of the foregoing was thus written to wit State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that on this seventeenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six before the subscribers a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for the County aforesaid personally appears Zachariah Merriken he being known to me to be the person who is named and described as and professing to be the party grantor to the aforegoing indenture and doth acknowledge the said indenture or instrument of writing to be his act and deed. In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name on the day and year aforesaid Recorded the 21.st day of Feby 1846 Thos N. Pindle Justice Peace Ex d d costs 81¼ cts Paid
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