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93 At the foot of the foregoing was thus written to wit State of Maryland Be it remembered that on this seventeenth Anne Arundel County to wit day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six before me one of the Justices of the peace of the County and state aforesaid personally appeared John T. Taylor he being personally known to me to be the identical person who is named and described as and professing to be the party to the aforegoing instrument of writing and does acknowledge the same to be his act and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof and the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided Recorded 23.rd day of Feby 1846 John Edw Stalker Ex d d costs 81¼ cts Paid
Duvall both of Anne Arundel County in the State of Maryland at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained & sold and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto the said Edwin W Duvall his executors & administrators my negro man named Robert Alton aged about twenty seven years of rather a light complexion which said negro so described as aforesaid I do warrant to be of sound mind and sound and healthy in body and a slave for life. I do also warrant and defend the said negro so described as aforesaid to the said Edwin W Duvall his executors administrators and assigns against me my executors and administrators and against every other person or persons whomsoever To Have and To Hold the said negro man so described as aforesaid to the said Edwin W. Duvall his Executors administrators and assigns forever. In Testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands and affixed our seals this twenty third day of February eighteen hundred and forty six Charles E Bevan (seal) Signed sealed and Edwin W Duvall (seal) delivered in the presence of "The words and a slave for life in the 20.th line being first interlined W.m Glover State of Maryland Anne Arundel County to wit On this twenty third day of February eighteen hundred and forty six personally appeared Charles E. Bevan and Edwin W. Duvall of the County and state aforesaid and acknowledged the |
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