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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 63   View pdf image
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                                       63

    Maryland sc.s  To all whom it may concern  Be it
known That I James P Wood of anne arundel
County in the State of maryland for divers good causes
and considerations me thereunto moving as also in
further consideration of the sum of five dollars Current
money to me in hand paid doth by these presents release
liberate manumit and set free my negroe boy James
aged about six years to be free on the first day of
August in the year Eighteen hundred and forty one
and I do hereby declare the aforegoing negro boy
James to be free from slavery manumitted and discharged
from all manner of servitude or service to me my
heirs Executors and administrators at the time herein
before mentioned according to the purport true intent
and meaning thereof and the act of assembly in such
case made and provided.   In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed
my seal this fifth day of February Eighteen hundred
and Eighteen
Signed Seal'd & delivered in
    the presence of                     James P Wood  (seal)
    Tho Whittington
    Jonathan Childs

    On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit:
       Received on the day of the date within mentioned
the sum of five dollars Current money it being the
full consideration money within mentioned
Test   Tho.s Whittington
          Jonathan Childs               James P Wood

       Anne Arundel County to wit:   On this twelfth day
of February Eighteen hundred and Eighteen personally
appeared James P Wood party to the within Instrument
of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the
                                                                (peace)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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