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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 182   View pdf image
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182

Delivered
to John O'Donnell
Feby 19th
1857
 Margaret Booth
  Bill of Sale
          To
Robert Fowler
     Whereas William Booth
   late of Washington County deceased
  has by his last will and testament
 duly admitted to probate in the
Orphans Court of Washington County
                                  State of Maryland liberated and set free his negro boy Daniel
                                  to take effect when the said Daniel shall attain the age of
                                  twenty eight years reserving to his wife Mrs Margaret Booth
                                  in the mean time the services of the said negro boy Daniel
                                     And whereas also the said Daniel is eleven years of age
                                  on the 1.st of October 1856 and from that time has seventeen years
                                  to serve the said Margaret.   Know all men therefore by
                                  these presents that the said Margaret Booth for and in
                                  consideration of the sum of two hundred and seventy five dollars
                                  current money to her in hand paid by Robert Fowler of the City
                                  of Baltimore in the State of Maryland who is now and for
                                  more than one year last passed has been a bona fide resident
                                  of the State of Maryland the receipt whereof she doth hereby
                                  acknowledge hath bargained sold assigns and transferred
                                  and by these presents doth bargain sell assign and transfer
                                  unto the said Robert Fowler his executors administrators and
                                  assigns.   All her the said Margaret Booths right and
                                  interest in and to the said negro boy Daniel for and during the
                                  terms of servitude to have served as aforesaid by the last will and
                                  testament of the said William Booth that is to say for the
                                  term of seventeen years from the 1.st day of October Eighteen
                                  hundred and fifty six         In Witness whereof the
                                  said Margaret Booth and the said Robert Fowler have
                                  hereunto subscribed their names and affixed their seals this
                                  15.th day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty six
                                  Witness                                             Margaret Booth   (seal)
                                        Jn.o Booth                                       Robt Fowler    (seal)
                                           J Cook

                                  State of Maryland Washington County to wit:
                                        Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that on this
                                  15.th day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred
                                  and fifty six before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the
                                  State of Maryland in and for Washington County aforesaid
                                  personally appear Mrs Margaret Booth and Robert Fowler
                                  they being known to me of my own ^personal^ knowledge to be the persons who
                                  are named and described as and professing to be the said writing
                                  the foregoing Bill of Sale and doth acknowledge the said writing
                                  to be their act and deed            In testimony whereof I hereunto
                                  subscribe my name the day and year aforesaid
                                                                                                    J. Cook J. P.


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