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637 hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this fifteenth day of april in the year Eighteen hundred and forty four Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of Wm Glover Amelia Pinkney (seal) Edward Sparks At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit Anne Arundel County to wit Be it remembered That on this fifteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and forty four personally appears Amelia Pinkney a party to the within instrument of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of maryland in and for said county and acknowledges the within instrument of writing to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned and the negro man within named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged from all services to her or to any claiming under her and to be free and manumitted according to the act of assembly in such cases made and provided and I Certify that the said Amelia Pinkney is known by me to be same and Identical with the person named as and professing to be the party grantor in the foregoing instrument of writing and that she signed sealed and executed the same in my presence Chd Acknowledged before and Certified by Wm Glover 50 3¼ Recorded the 23d day of april 1844 To all whom it may Concern Be it known that I William Brewer of the City of annapolis in the State of maryland for divers causes and Considerations me thereunto moving as also in further Considerations of five dollars Current money to me in hand paid have released from slavery liberated manumitted and set free from and after the date of these presents and by these presents do release from Slavery liberate manumit and set free from and after the date of these presents my negro woman named Clare calling herself Clare Harwood being of the age of forty years and able to work and gain a livelyhood and her the said Negro woman named Clare calling herself Clare Harwood I do declare to be free (manumitted) |
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