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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 4   View pdf image
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the sum of Forty dollars to me in hand paid by John D. Farquharson
have granted, bargained & sold and by these presents do grant, bargain
and sell unto the said John D. Farquharson my Negroes named Grace
aged twenty four years to be free January 1 1852 and her infant child
John slave for life and sound in body and mind   To have and to hold
the said Negroes Grace and John as above bargained and sold unto the
said John D. Farquharson, his heirs, executors, Administrators and Assigns
against me the said Mary Ann Drain, my heirs, executors and Administrators
and against all and every other person or persons shall and will warrant
and defend.  In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and
affixed my seal this seventh day of May 1847.      Mary A. Drain   (L S)
Test  Robert Bell J. P.                                    John D. Farquharson   (Seal)

State of Maryland               County To wit:  On this seventh day of May 1847
before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
and state personally appeared Mary Ann Drain and John D. Farquharson
and Acknowledged the above Bill of sale or instrument of writing to
be            act and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof.
Acknowledged before                                                Robert Bell  J. P.


John H. Carroll         Be it remembered that the following Bill of Sale
      from   Ex.d         was recorded on the 22.d day of May 1847.  To wit:
Peter Wheeler &      Know all men by these presents that we Peter Wheeler
Alexander Wilson     and Alexander Wilson of Dorchester County and State of
                                Maryland for and in consideration of the sum of one
dollar current money to us in hand paid by John H. Carroll of said
County ^we^ have granted, bargained and sold and by these presents do grant, bargain
and sell unto the said John H. Carroll all our right and title to a
negro woman named Matilda Bond aged 28 years, also Negro woman Mary
LeCompte aged 25 years said Matilda and said Mary being slaves for life
and sound in body and mind which said Negro Slaves belonged to the late
Nancy Parker upon whose Estate Peter Wheeler   To have and to hold
the said Negroes as above bargained and sold unto the said John H. Carroll
and his Executors, Administrators and Assigns against us the said Alexander
Wilson & Peter Wheeler, heirs, executors and Administrators shall and will
warrant and defend.  In testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands
and affixed our seals this tenth day of May in the year Eighteen hundred
and forty seven.                                                Peter Wheeler   (L S)
Test  Robert Bell  J. P.                                                his
                                                                   Alexander x Wilson   (Seal)
                                                                                 mark

State of Maryland Dorchester County, To wit:  on this 10.th day of May
1847 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the


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