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three is the identical person who was
manumitted or freed as aforesaid and that the said negro Tom Gantt was raised in Anne Arundel County In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name (Seal) and affixed the seal of my office this Eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Thomas T. Simmons Reg.r Wills A. A. County The State of Maryland Anne Arundel County to Wit: I hereby Certify to all whom it doth or may concern that on an examination of the Records and Papers in the Office of the Register of Wills for Anne Arundel County it appears that the last Will and Testament of William Drury late of the County aforesaid, deceased, bearing date the ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two was proved and recorded in the said office on the fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty three in Liber T. H. H. N.o 1 folio 167 and that the said William Drury by his said will among other things did devise and direct that all his other slaves should be free at the death or marriage of his wife whichsoever should first happen and that the the children of such slaves born in the meantime should also be free at the same time their parents were And I do further Certify That it hath been proved by such Testimony as is satisfactory to me that the Bearer hereof negro Rosetta Green whose height is about five feet three and a quarter inches; whose age is about twenty six years; whose complexion is rather dark; and who as appears by the said Will and Testimony became free on the intermarriage of the deceased's widow with a certain Aaron Meekins is the identical person who was manumitted or freed as aforesaid and that the said negro ^Rosetta Green^ was raised in Anne Arundel County and has a scar on the right wrist In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my (Seal) name and affixed the Seal of my office this Eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Thomas T. Simmons Reg.r Wills A. A. County The State of Maryland, Anne Arundel County to wit: I hereby Certify to all whom it doth or may Concern that on an examination of the REcords and Papers in the office of the Register of Wills for Anne Arundel County it appears that the last will and Testament of William Drury late of the County aforesaid deceased |
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