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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 224   View pdf image
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this ninth day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty,
personally appears Edmond North before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace of the
State of Maryland for the City aforesaid, and Acknowledges the above Power of Attorney,
or instrument of Writing to be his Act & deed, according to the true intent & meaning
thereof.   Acknowledged before                                          A. H. Penington

Know all men by these presents, that I, Lewis P. Ross, Attorney for Edmond North, of
Baltimore City in the state of Maryland, for and in consideration of the sum of
Two hundred & seventy five dollars, current money, to me in hand paid by Thomas
Hughlett, of Dorchester County in the State aforesaid, have granted, bargained & sold,
and by these presents do grant, bargain & sell unto the said Thomas Hughlett,
his heirs & Assigns, the following Negro, To wit:  one Negro Man named Jenkins
Miller, aged about twenty eight years, to serve untill the twentieth day of May
Eighteen hundred & sixty three and then to be free, (as by reference to a Power
of Attorney executed by Edmond North to the said Lewis P. Ross bearing date the
ninth day of February 1850 will more full appear.   To have and to hold
the said Negro Man named Jenkins Miller, as above bargained & sold, unto the
said Thomas Hughlett, his heirs, executors, administrators & Assigns, against me
the said Lewis P. Ross, Attorney as aforesaid, my heirs, executors & Administrators,
and against all & every other person or persons whatsoever, shall & will warrant
and forever defend by these presents.  In testimony whereof I Lewis P. Ross, Attorney
as aforesaid, and Thomas Hughlett have hereto set our hands and affixed our
seals this Eleventh day of February Eighteen hundred & fifty.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of                  L. P. Ross Att.y   (seal)
Charles Corkran                                                             Thomas Hughlett   (seal)

Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:   On this Eleventh day of February in the
year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty, personally appeared before me a
Justice of the Peace in and for said County, the within named Lewis P. Ross,
Attorney as aforesaid, and Thomas Hughlett, and Acknowledged the within Bill
of Sale to be their Act & deed, according to the purport, true intent & meaning of
the same   And at the same time came before me; Thomas Hughlett, party
grantee within mentioned, and made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty
God that the consideration set forth in this Bill of sale, is true and bona fide
as therein set forth, according to the Act of Assembly in such case made & provided.
                      Acknowledged before                                 Charles Corkran

Rec.d February 11.th 1850 of Thomas Hughlett one dollar in lieu of a
stamp on this Bill of sale.
                                                                                  Wm Jackson   Clk


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