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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 276   View pdf image
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that the consideration in the said BIll of Sale is true
and bona fide as therein sett forth
                                                    W.m A. Loder J. P.
Received to be recorded on the 15th day of January 1858 at 10
o clock A. M. Same day recorded and examined per
                                                      W W Watkins clk


Wilson McBee
 Bill of Sale to
Matthias Hammond

 Whereas a certain Richard P Snowden
late of Anne Arundel County deceased
in his life time did by deed of manumission;
duly executed acknowledged
and recorded in one of the records of said County liberate and
Set free his negro girl Priscilla to take effect from and after
the expiration of fourteen years from the twenty fourth
day of November eighteen hundred and forty five when the
said Priscilla would have attained the age of twenty years
reserving to himself and his representatives in the meantime
the use and Service of the said negro girl; and did
also in the said deed fix and determine the state and condition
of the issue which might be born of the said negro
girl during her Servitude.  And whereas the legal ownership
and possession of the said negro girl is now in Wilson
McBee by virtue of a Bill of Sale dated the thirtieth day of
may Eighteen hundred and fifty four Anna Maria Hopkins
one of the heirs and legal representatives of the said
Richard P Snowden deceased to the said Wilson McBee
And Whereas the said Priscilla hath given birth to a female
child named Gabriella now about ten months old
Know all men by these presents that I Wilson McBee of
the County of Howard and State of Maryland in consideration
of the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars paid me
by Matthias Hammond resident of the County and State
aforesaid do hereby bargain and sell to the said Matthias
Hammond my negro Slave Priscilla and her ofspring
Gabriella, Priscilla for the unexpired time mentioned in
the above recited "Bill of Sale" and Gabriella for and in accordance
with the above in part recited "Deed of Manumission"
as by reference thereto will more fully appear the said
Negro Girl Priscilla being a Slave for the term of years
recited in the above mentioned Deed of Manumission and
no longer.  And the said Wilson McBeing is entitled to said
Slaves as provided in and by the above in part recited "Deed
of manumission" a bill of Sale
Witness our hands and Seals this Sixth day of January
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty eight




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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
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