Volume 814, Page 385 View pdf image |
385
free my negro slave girl Charlotte Dorsey (a slave to me for life hitherto) aged near eighteen years and able to earn a good and sufficient livelyhood and her the said negro Charlotte I do hereby declare free manumitted and discharged from slavery to me and every person and all persons claiming by through or under me now henceforth and forever In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal this fourth day of June A. D. 1859 Signed Sealed & her delivered in presence of Rainer x Grey (seal) John S Tyson jr mark A. M. Tyson State of Maryland Howard County Sct: On this fourth day of June A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty nine before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of maryland personally appears Rainer Grey (sometimes called Raney) and acknowledges the above deed of manumission to be her act and deed and the negro girl Charlotte Dorsey to be manumitted and discharged from slavery as aforesaid Edward Harwood J. P. Received to be recorded on the 10th day of October 1859 same day Recorded & examined pr. W. W. Watkins clk
and assigns all my right and title and interest in the following property all the corn fodder and cabbage which I now own and which is on the property that I have worked on shares belonging to mrs Ward situated in Howard County formerly of the county of Howard in the state aforesaid To Have and to Hold all the right title and interest in the above property for and in consideration |
||||||
Volume 814, Page 385 View pdf image |
Tell Us What You Think About the Maryland State Archives Website!
|
An Archives of Maryland electronic publication.
For information contact
mdlegal@mdarchives.state.md.us.