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82 under the age of forty five years and capable by labour to procure sufficient food and raiment the said Woman Betsy and her two male Children Benjamin Howard and Charles Howard I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all manner of servitude to me my Executors or administrators for ever In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twentieth day of august Eighteen hundred and Eighteen his Witness James Hunter Benjamin X Howard (seal) John W Beard mark on the back of the aforegoing deed was thus written to wit: Received on the day of the date within mentioned the sum of one Dollar Current money it being the full consideration money within mentioned Witness his James Hunter Benjamin X Howard (seal) mark Anne Arundel County sc on this twentieth day of August Eighteen hundred and Eighteen personally appears Benjamin Howard party to the within instrument of writing before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of maryland for the County aforesaid and acknowledges the same to be his act and deed for the purposes within mentioned and the woman and Children within named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged from all services to him or to any claiming under him and to be free and manumitted according to the act of assembly in such cases made and provided Ch.d Acknowledged before James Hunter 3¼ Recorded the 20.th day of august 1818 To all whom it may concern Be it known that I William Simmons of anne arundel County (in) |
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