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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 31   View pdf image
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                                                                             31

John Howard
Deed of Manumission
           To
Harriet Howard
 Know all men by these presents
that I John Howard of Baltimore
City but formerly of Howard District
of Anne Arundel County ^(now Howard county) in the
State of Maryland divers good
causes and considerations me thereunto moving as also
in consideration of the sum of five dollars to me in hand
paid the receipt whereof I hereby acknowledge, have
released from slavery manumitted and set free and
by these presents do release from slavery manumit and
set free forthwith my negro woman named Harriet
Howard about forty years of age and able to gain a
sufficient livelihood and maintainance (she being
the same negro woman purchased by me from
John G. Holland as by reference to bill of sale
dated 27th day of August 1846 and recorded among
the chattel records of Howard County will more
fully shew) and her the said Harriet Howard
I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted and
discharged from all manner of servitude or service
to me my heirs or executors and administrators
forever   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal this twentieth day
of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
Signed sealed and                       his
delivered in the presence      John x Howard   (Seal)
of      E. C. Lyons                     mark
         W. H. Worthington
         F Earlougher

Howard County to wit:  On this twentieth day of
May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty four before me the subscriber a
justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and
for Howard County personally appeared the said John
Howard party grantor to the foregoing deed of Manumission
and acknowledged the same to be his act
and deed according to the true intent and meaning
thereof.  And I do further certify that I am satisfied
of my own knowledge together with information
given me that the said John Howard is the
same person named and described as and
professing to be party grantor to the foregoing
deed of Manumission
                                              E. C. Lyons
Received on the aforegoing instrument of writing


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