all and fell negro Know men by these prumut, Thish I. Thomas Sald of Sales County and stats of Maryland, far and in Consideration of the Sum of "One Sundred Dollars, current money, to me in hand paid by Helligh Auld (the City of Baltimore in the said Stato, at and before the Sealing and delivery of be present, the receipt when of, I. The said stromas Huld de hereby acknowlity, granted, bargained and fold, and by these presents de grant, bargain to do said Hough Auld, his executors, administratus and assigns, One naw by the name of Frederick Baily or Douglas as he calls himself; - he is now but twenty eight years of age. To have and to hold the lair Gr. And I the said Thomas Suld, of a myself, my heirs, excentors and ad ministrated, all and Singular the this Irederich Baily alias Douglas, wate the his Hough Auld, his executors, administrators and assigns, against me the said Homes Huld, my executors & administrated, and against all and Jerson or persons whatsoever, shall and will tanant and forever defend the present. In Witness Whereof, I let my hand and seal disThirtipth day of November, sighteen hundred and forty-sixt. The Auld Signed, Sealed and delivered in Mecence of negro every for other State of Maryland, Talbot county, to kit : – Rep it rememband and it is centofine, that on the Thirtieth day of November, Que domini, Eighten undred and forty-tif, before to subrouter, a Sunctice of the Peace of Mangland, in and for Salbos County, personally, expeand Thomas Auld, he being # pelow named and deserited, as and profossing & bo, the party to the foregoing deed or deaturs; and personally known & sus; and doth acknowledge the said instrument of In testiming ochenth, I have hereunto riting to be his act and deed. the day 54 Four of Douglass' five children grew to adulthood: (above) Rosetta, the oldest; (above right) Lewis, the second oldest, Charles Remond, the third child; and (below right) Frederick, Jr., next to the youngest. The fifth child, Annie, died in March 1860 when she was 10 years old. 17 (Above) Douglass and his second wife, Helen Pitts (seated), and her niece, Eva Pitts (standing). (Below) The Douglasses at Niagara Falls. Helen Pitts Douglass recognized the stature and national prominence of her husband and spared no effort to make his home a memorial to him after his death. She organized the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, which was chartered by Congress in 1900. Sixtytwo years later her dreams were realized when an Act of Congress made the Frederick Douglass Home a unit of the National Park System, thereby ensuring its preservation. |