Manuscript document. Dorchester County, Maryland, 20 July 1825. 1 page, folio, 8 x 12 7/8 in. Dorchester county clerk embossed seal. Docketed to verso.

A slave bill of sale recording that for $350, Henry McNamara of Dorchester County, Maryland sold to Green Underwood of Greenville District, South Carolina "a certain Negro Man named Moses, about twenty two years of age which Negro I warrant to be sound, healthy, and sensible and a Slave for Life. "

A Henry McNamara is listed in Dorchester County in the 1820 Federal Census as enslaving one individual in the appropriate age bracket (18-25) to correspond with Moses.

William Green Underwood (1799-1852) lived in Spartanburg, South Carolina at the time of the sale, but moved to Dallas, Alabama, and purchased land in 1837. He evidently became quite wealthy as he enslaved 20 individuals in 1840 (Federal Census) and at least 69 by 1850 (Federal Slave Schedule). All three of his sons would go on to serve in Confederate Alabama regiments. 

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