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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 191   View pdf image
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                                           191.

and for Dorchester County personally appeared Anne Page, who of our own
knowledge we are satisfied is the identical person named and described as
and professing to be the part Grantor within named and acknowledged the
foregoing instrument of writing to be her act and deed
                               Acknowledged before                        James Rea


Manumission           Be it remembered that the following Manumission was recorded
John Kirby              on the 9.th day of February 1844, To wit:
    to       Ex.d          To all whom it may concern be it known that I John Kirby
Sundry Negroes      of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland for divers good
                               causes and considerations me thereunto moving have released from
slavery manumitted liberated and set free and by these presents do hereby release
from Slavery liberate manumit and set free my negroes as follows Viz
Negro Harriet being twenty four years of age on the fifth day of January
last the said Harriet to serve me untill the fifth day of January Eighteen
hundred and forty nine at which time she is to be free but in case of my
death before her servitude as above expressed expires then and in that case
the said Harriet to be free at my decease.  Negro Abigail daughter of said
Harriet being three years of age on the twenty second day of September Eighteen
hundred and forty three to continue to serve me and my heirs untill she shall
attain the age of twenty five years then to be free.  Also William Henry son
of said Harriet being one year of age on the twenty ninth day of June last
to serve me and my heirs untill he shall attain the age of twenty five years
then to be free and then the said negroes above named I do declare to be free
according to the time their respective servitude as above named shall expire
manumitted and discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me
my executors or administrators forever.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal this twenty ninth day of September in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
Signed, sealed & delivered                                             John Kirby      (seale)
in the presence of
James Hammersly   William Fooks

                            Maryland, Dorchester County To wit:  on this 29.th day of
September in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally
appears John Kirby party to the within instrument of writing before me the
subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland for the said County &
acknowledges the same to be his act and deed for the purposes within mentioned &
the negroes within named to be manumitted and discharged from all service
to him or to any claiming under him and to be free and manumitted according
tot eh true intent and meaning of this instrument of writing and
according to the act of assembly in such cases made and provided
             Acknowledged before                     James Hammersly


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