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Baltimore, Maryland Jabez D. Pratt (Baltimore County, Maryland, attorney. ) N00017805 1819-12-11 1865-03-03 Categories: People

Baltimore County, Maryland, agent and commissioner of deeds. Suffolk County, Massachusetts, native. Married to Mary C. Kowse in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on March 7, 1840. Father of Joseph Pratt and Charles Pratt. Married to Lucy S. Buck Pratt in New Haven County, Connecticut, on September 30, 1848. Father of Albert Pratt, Frank Pratt, Baron Pratt, and Louis. Agent in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1850. Agent in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1860. Employed Ann Somers, Bridget Somers, Kate Katcher, and Nathan Loney as servants in Baltimore County in 1860.

Relationships Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Ward 14, p. 429B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Ward 20, p. 208. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Ward 12, p. 286A. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Boston, Marriages, 1800-1849, Vol. 2, pp. 209-210. "Marriages," The Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), October 12, 1848. "Jabez D. Pratt (1819-1865)," Find A Grave, Memorial #35496322, accessed June 24, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35496322/jabez-d-pratt. Daniel E. Myers (Baltimore, Maryland, police officer, justice of the peace and magistrate.) N00018422 1814-03-27 1870-08-16 Categories: People

Baltimore, Maryland, police officer, justice of the peace and magistrate. Married to Martha Myers. Father of Mary E. A. Myers and Daniel A. Myers. Police officer in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1850. Justice of the Peace in Baltimore, Maryland on December 20, 1859. Magistrate in Baltimore in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Jabez D. Pratt (Baltimore County, Maryland, attorney. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850) Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore County, 8th Ward City of Baltimore, 399A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United State (1860) Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore County, 8th Ward Baltimore City, 350. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870) Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore County, 8th Ward Baltimore City, 316B. "Death of the Warden of the Jail," The Daily Exchange (Baltimore, Maryland), The Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), August 17, 1870, p. 4. "Funeral of the Late Daniel E. Myers," The Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), August 20, 1870, p. 4. “In the Circuit Court for Baltimore,” The Daily Exchange (Baltimore, Maryland), January 9, 1860. George E. Sangston (Baltimore, Maryland, merchant and court clerk.) N00018441 1806? Categories: People

Baltimore, Maryland, merchant and court clerk. Maryland native. Married to Anna Sangston. Father of Annie E. Sangston and George E. Sangston. Dry good merchant in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1850. Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City in 1860. Employed Jane Eden and Rachael Tucker as domestic servants in Baltimore in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Daniel E. Myers (Baltimore, Maryland, police officer, justice of the peace and magistrate.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Ward 13, p. 375A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore, Ward 12, p. 17. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore, Ward 10, p. 576A. Maryland P00001160 Categories: Places

State in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Capital at Annapolis. Located on the Atlantic Ocean.

38.9784, -76.4922 "Annapolis, Maryland," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 22, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. James E. DiLisio and James H. Bready, "Maryland," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Maryland-state. Baltimore, Maryland P00003303 Categories: Places

City in Maryland. Located on the Chesapeake Bay.

39.2904, -76.6122 "Baltimore" in Encyclopedia Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/place/Baltimore) (accessed March 30, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Baltimore, Maryland," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 15, 2021). Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Superior Court of Baltimore City O00018442 1851 Categories: Organizations

Judicial body vested with authority in civil suits exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars, as a court of equity within the city limits of Baltimore, and with authority over all other civil cases not assigned to the Baltimore Court of Common Pleas.

Relationships Legal: George E. Sangston (Baltimore, Maryland, merchant and court clerk.)

"Archives of Maryland: Historical List, Baltimore City Superior Court Clerks, 1851-1982," Maryland State Archives, Accessed August 18, 2022, https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc2600/sc2685/html/bcsupclerk.html. Baltimore, Maryland 1861-10-28 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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State of Maryland City of Baltimore } ,ss,

Personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore Jabez D Pratt, who made oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God. that he will well and truly execlute and perform all the duties of a Commissioner of Deeds for the State of Kentucky in and for the State of Maryland under and by virtue of the laws of Kentucky.

Jabez D Pratt

Sworn & Subscribed this 28th day of Oct AD 1861 before me Justice as aforesaid

Danl E Myers

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State of Maryland, Baltimore City, Sct:

I HEREBY CERTIFY, That Daniel E Myers Esquire, before whom the annexed affidavit was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for the City of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, this28th day of October A. D. 1861.

Geo E. Sangston Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City.

THE SUPERIOR COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY. IN THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF MARYLAND

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Maryland

Oath J. D. Pratt Comr of Deeds Filed Nov 1. 1861