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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 291   View pdf image
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on the first day of January next, and her Daughter Betty or Elizabeth aged
two years on the first day of January next, Harriet to serve untill she attain
the age of thirty five years, and Betty or Elizabeth to serve untill she attain the age
of thirty one years, slaves for the terms above, and sound in body and mind:  To
have and to hold the said Negro Woman Harriet for the term of ten years
from the first day of January next, and Betty or Elizabeth for the term of
twenty nine years from the first day of January next, according to Manumission
to the said Negroes this day executed and recorded, as above bargained
and sold, unto the said Thomas H. Handy, his heirs, executors, Administrators
and Assigns, against me the said Emily Hurst, my heirs, executors and Administrators,
and against all and every other person or persons whatsoever, shall
and will warrant & forever defend.  In testimony whereof I, Emily Hurst,
seller, and I, Thomas H. Handy, Purchaser, have hereto set our hands &
affixed seals this 14.th day of November Eighteen hundred and fifty.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the                          Emily L. Hurst      (seal)
presence of James Rea                                    Thomas Hy Handy     (seal)

Maryland, Dorchester County, To wit:  On the fourteenth day of November
in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty, personally
appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, the within
named Emily Hurst, Seller, and Acknowledged the within Bill of sale to be her
Act and deed, according to the purport, true intent and meaning of the
same, and at the same time came before me, Thomas H. Handy, Purchaser,
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 true meaning of the Act of Assembly of
1846 Chapter 271 made and provided.
             Sworn before                                                   James Rea

Received the 14.th day of November 1850 from Thomas H. Handy the sum of
one dollar in lieu of a stamp on this Bill of sale                       W.m Jackson  Clk


State of Maryland                   Be it remembered & it is hereby certified that
Ex.d      from        75              the following Bond was recorded on the 25.th day
John Richardson & others       of November A. D. 1850, To wit:
                                     {Stamp}     Know all men by these presents that
we John Richardson,    {six doll.o}   Peter Wheeler, John W. Hayward, Joseph
Bradshaw, John Mills and James Woolford of Tho of Dorchester County in
the State of Maryland, are held and firmly bound unto the State of Maryland,
in the full and just sum of Twenty six thousand six hundred and sixty six
dollars sixty six & two third cents, current money, to be paid to the said
State, or its certain Attorney, to which payment well and truly to be made
and done, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and Administrators,


 
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