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Know all Men by these Presents that I John Mory of
Roxbury, in the County of Suffolk Gentleman for and in Considera
=tion of the Sum of Five pounds to me in hand paid by David
Stoddard Greenough of the same Roxbury Esquire the Receipt where
=of I do hereby acknowledge Do give, grant, & sell unto him the
said David, his Heirs or assigns a Molatto Boy of Five years Old
called and known by the Name of Dick who was Born in my
House of my Negro servant Binah. to live with and serve
him the said David, his Heirs, or assigns in the Capacity of a
Servant untill he shall attain to the Age of Twenty one Years
& I do hereby renounce and foreverquit claim to him the said David all
right & title I now have or ever had to the said Molotto Boy
in Wittness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and Seal
this Thirtyeth day of July in the Year of our Lord One thousand
Seven Hundred & Eighty-five --

Signed, Seald, & delivered
in presence of. the word forever in
the Eleventh line being first interlined

[Endorsement]