[Legal document for moving two enslaved people from Virginia to Maryland] · Voices of the Eastern Shore

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People: Done, William, 1746-1812; Nanny, c. 1763; Sarah or Sally, c. 1791-; Teackle, Littleton Dennis, 1777-1848
Places: United States - Maryland - Somerset County; United States - Virginia

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Description: This legal document lists two enslaved women removed from Virginia and moved into Somerset County, Maryland by Littleton D. Teackle. He states in January of 1801 he brought into Somerset County one negro girl named Sarah alias Sally, about ten years old, and one negro woman named Nanny alias Nancy, about 38 yrs old, filed March 24, 1801.
Creation Date: March 24, 1801
Subjects: Teackle, Littleton Dennis, 1777-1848; Sally, c. 1791-; Nanny, c. 1763-1834; Enslaved persons.
Item Type: legal
Institution: Somerset County Historical Society
Collection: Voices of the Eastern Shore
Place Names: United States - Maryland - Somerset County

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Enrolled and Exam^d
Littleton D. Teackle
List of Negroes brought
from Virginia
Filed 24^th March 1801
Fees paid.

March the 24th Day anno Dom. 1801 then was delivered unto me the subscriber the within written Certificate in order to be Enrolled among the records of Somerset County which said certificate is accordingly recorded among the same records in Liber N folio 104.
Per Wm. Done Clk.

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I do hereby certify that in the month of January Anno Dom. one Thousand eight hundred & one, I removed from the State of Virginia into Somerset County two female negroes, according to the subsequent list vizt.

One negro girl named Sarah alias Sally, about ten years old & in her eleventh --. One negro woman named Nanny alias Nancy about thirty eight years old & in her thirty ninth which list as above is hereby desired to be recorded among the records of Somerset County.

Litt D. Teackle
24 Mar. 1801