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208. Mary Ann Drain Be it remembered that the following Deed of Paid Ex.d To 55 Ex.d Manumission was recorded November 6.th 1849. Negro Mary Elizabeth Maryland Sct. To all whom it may concern, be it known that I. Mary Ann Drain of the Town of Cambridge in Dorchester County & State of Maryland, for divers good causes & considerations me thereunto moving, as also in further consideration of one dollar, current money, to me in hand paid, have released from slavery, liberated, manumitted & set free, and by these presents do hereby release from slavery, liberate, manumit & set free my Negro Girl Mary Elizabeth (daughter of Negro Woman Ann Hicks) being of the age of fourteen years, and able to work & gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance, and her the said Negro Girl Mary Elizabeth I do declare to be henceforth free, manumitted & discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me, my Executors or Administrators forever. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed my seal this twenty sixth day of October in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty nine. Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of us Mary A. Drain (Seal) James Rea Jn.o D. Farquaharson Maryland Dorchester County, To wit: Be it remembered that on this twenty sixth day of October in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty nine, personally appeared Mary Ann Drain, party to the within instrument of writing, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland for said County, and Acknowledges the same to be her Act & deed for the purposes within mentioned, and the Negro Girl within named to be henceforth manumitted & discharged from all services to her, or to any claiming under her, and to be free & manumitted according to the Act of Assembly in such cases made & provided. Acknowledged before James Rea Anthony C. Thompson Be it remembered that the following Deed Ex.d To 65. of Manumission was recorded November 6.th 1849. Sundry Negroes To all whom it may concern, be it known that I, Anthony C. Thompson, of Dorchester County in the state of Maryland, for divers good causes & considerations me thereunto moving, have released from slavery, liberated, manumitted & set free, and by these presents do hereby release from slavery, manumit and set free on the first day of January, after they have arived at thirty years of age, and the increase of said slaves I manumit in like manner, commencing on the first day of January 1850, namely Abram Sprigs aged nine years Jeremiah Young aged six years George Brown aged seven years John Henry |
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