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Know all men by these presents that I Verlinda Smith of the city and county of Washington and District of Columbia for and in consideration of the sum of seven hundred dollars current money to me in hand paid by Richard Smith Esq of the said city count & district for George Poe of Mobile Alabama at or before the sealing and delivery hereof of receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have granted bargained and sold, and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto the said George Poe his heirs executors administrators and assigns one negro woman named Nancy aged thirty years and her two children named Eliza Ann aged 10 years and Louisa aged eight years to have and to hold the said negro slaves forever

In testimony whereof have unto set my hand and seal this 21st day of December 1829 Witnesses Verlinda Smith [seal] Benjmn P Smith District of Columbia Washington County to wit

On this 21st day of December 1829 before me one of the justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid appears Verlinda Smith and acknowledges the foregoing instrument to be actr and deed according to the true intent and manning thereof and the act of assembly in such cases made & provided James Ord

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District of Columbia, Washington County, Cont. I William Brent, clerk of the circuit court of the District of Columbia for the county of Washington, hereby certify, that James Ord, esquire, before whom the within acknowledgement appears to have been made, and who has thereto subscribed his name, as at the time thereof, and still is, a justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn; and to his acts as such, full faith and credit and ought to be given, as well in courts of Justice as there out.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and the seal of the said circuit court, for the county aforesaid, at the city of Washington this 21st of December 1829

Wm Brent et, al

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Verlinda Smith to Bill of sale George Poe

Received 22nd December 1829 to be Recorded and the same day was Recorded in W. B. No28 folios 103 and 104 one of the land Records of Washington county in the District of Columbia, and examined by Wm Brent clk

Rec'd in Rich Smiths Letter of 23d dec. 1829 Mobile 21st Jany 1830.