East New Market
Notable People and Families
1819 Henry Nicols sells negro Sarah & child
Know all men by these presents that I Henry Nicolls of Dorchester
County in the State of Maryland for an in consideration of the sum of
two hundred and seventy-five dollars current money of the State of
Maryland to me in hand paid by John Thompson of Davidson County and
State of Tennessee the said whereof I do hereby acknowledge and myself
there with fully satisfied have bargained unto and delivered unto the
said John Thompson his executors, administrators, and assigns, my
negroes that is to say one woman by the name of Sarah about twenty-five
years of age of dark complexion about five feet high & her child by the
name of Abraham about five months old of light complexion, no marks
recollected the above named negroes slaves for life do have and to hold
the said two negroes unto the said John Thompson his executors,
administrators, & assigns to the only proper use & behoof of the said
Thompson, his executors, administrators, & assigns forever and the said
Henry Nicolls myself, my executors & administrators the said bargained
negroes unto the said Jn Thompson, his executors, administrators, and
assigns against all persons shall and will warrant & defend by these
presents witness whereof I have here unto set my hand & seal the 17th of
November 1819.
Witness
Henry Nicolls (seal)
H.P. Waggaman
On the 17th of November 1819, before me a Justice of the Peace for
said County, came Henry Nicolls and acknowledged the above bill of sale
to be his act & deed & negroes Sarah and her child Abraham to be the
right and estate of John Thompson his heirs & assigns forever according
to the purpose & his intent & meaning of the same & the act of a Senetly
in such case, name, and provided(?).
H.P. Waggaman
