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423 said deed of manumission now appears not to have been recorded & I am disirous of securing to to the said Mulatto woman named Honor her freedom according to the intent & desire of the said Amey Howard deceased. Now therefore these presents Witnesseth that I Mary Haines of the State & county aforesaid do hereby manumit & set free my said mulatto slave named Honor her freedom to commence from the fifth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred & sixty six (1866) When she should be Twenty five years old And these presents do further witness that in consideration of Two hundred dollars paid me by Richard G Simpson resident of said County & State I do hereby bargain & sell to the said Richard G Simpson my said mulatto slave named Honor for the residue of the term of her servitude to wit: for the term of six years from the fifth instant The said mulatto being a slave for the term of six years from the fifth instant & no longer & the said Mary Haines being entitled to said slave for the whole of said term Witness our hands and seals this ninth day of February in the year eighteen hundred sixty Test Samuel Nichols Mary Haines (seal) Robert L Nichols Richard G Simpson (seal) State of Maryland Howard County to wit I hereby certify that on this ninth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred and sixty personally appeared before the subscriber one of said state Justices of the peace in and for said county Mary Howard Richard G Simpson parties to the foregoing Instrument of writing & did acknowledge the same to be their respective act And at the same time came also before me the said Richard G Simpson the bargainee or vendee within named & made Oath in due form of law that the Consideration therein mentioned is true & bona fide as therein set forth Samuel Nichols J. P. Received to be recorded on the 13th day of February 1860 at 11½ oclk Am same day recorded & Examined per W W Watkins clk
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