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8 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County and state aforesaid (he being the party granted within named) and acknowledge the within bill of sale or instrument of writing to be his act and deed and the goods and chattles and other the premises therein mentioned and hereby bargained and sold to be the right and property of the within named WVM Edmondson the party granted his heirs and assigns forever according to the purport true intent and meaning of the said Bill of sale or instrument of writing and the act of assembly in such case made and provided Taken and certified the day and year above written William Newton Thomas J H Eccleston Be it remembered that the Ex.d To following manumission was Negro William recorded on 2 Jany anno 1843 to wit To all persons to whom it doth or may concern Be it Known that I Thomas J H Eccleston of black water in the county of Dorchester and state of maryland for divers good causes and considerations we thereunto runing do hereby release from slavery liberate manumit and set free from and after the first day of January which will be in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty three one negro man slave belonging to me and now in my possession by the name of William or by whatsoever name she may be Known or called being at this ^time^ of the age of thirty five years and the said negro man Slave named William I do declare to be thenceforth that is to say from and after the said first day of January in the year of our Lord 1843 free as manumited and discharged from all names of servitude or service to me my executors or administrators and from all manner of claim or right of claim of servitude or service by me my Executors or administrators forever I testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this second day of January in the year of our Lord 1843 Signed sealed and delivered in pressence of Samuel Twilley Thomas J H Eccleston (Seal) Thos H Hicks |
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