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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 296   View pdf image
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these presents
                   Witness my hand and seal this eighth^teenth^ day
of May eighteen hundred and fifty eight
Test                                                Basil Crapster   (seal)
W. W. Watkins
G. W. Sands
Delivered June 1.st 1858 to M.r Crapster

State of Maryland
                     Howard County to wit:
                                                    I hereby certify that on
this eighteenth day of May Eighteen hundred and fifty eight before
me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace ^in &^ for the County aforesaid
personally appeared Basil Crapster and acknowledged
the aforegoing deed of manumission to be his act and deed
                                                       William Allen J. P.
Filed to be recorded May the 18.th 1858 same day recorded and
examined per                                                W. W. Watkins clk


Delivered to
Nicholas
Owens Novr
16th 1858
 Nicholas Owens & wife
  Deed of Manumission
to Caroline & others
 We Nicholas Owens and Mary A
his wife of Howard County Maryland
do hereby manumit and
set free our slave Caroline now
                         twenty seven years of age her freedom to commence on
                         the first day of May eighteen hundred and Sixty Six
                         and any issue she may have prior to that date shall
                         be free at the age of twenty five years if males and if
                         females at the age of eighteen years and so of their generations
                         forever and we do also hereby manumit and set
                         free our slaves Mary Ellen now eight years old Kitty
                         Ann now six years old Henry now four years
                         old and Evan now two years old the freedom of each to commence
                         at the age of thirty years; and in the event of our decease
                         before they shall attain that age then we do hereby
                         declare that they and each of them shall be free at the age
                         of twenty one years and we also further declare that any
                         & all issue the said Mary Ellen and Kitty Ann may have
                         prior to their freedom shall serve their mother only if males
                         until they attain the age of twenty one years; if females
                         until they attain the age of eighteen years when they shall
                         be free.  Witness our hands and seals this 19th day of May
                         Eighteen hundred and fifty eight
                               Attest
                         Reuben Warfield                     Nicholas Owens   (seal)
                         Achsah D. Warfield                Mary V Owens     (seal)


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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
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