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94 to carry out my said original intention in regard to said Jane and her issue. Now therefore I the said M.c Lane Brown of Howard County in the State of Maryland in Consideration of the premises and for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving have released from slavery liberated manumitted and set free and by these presents do hereby release from slavery liberate manumit and set free from and after the dates hereinafter particularly set forth my said negro slaves Jane Charles Harriet Maria George and William and them the said negroes just hereinbefore named I do hereby declare to be free manumitted and discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me my executors or administrators forever from and after the dates hereinafter particularly set forth as to each of the said negroes respectively that is to say Jane to be free from and after the third day of March eighteen hundred and sixty when she will attain the age of forty years Charles from and after the thirtieth day of April eighteen hundred and seventy eight. Harriet from and after the thirtieth day of April eighteen hundred and eighty three. Maria from and after the thirtieth day of November eighteen hundred and eighty four George from and after the first day of April eighteen hundred and eighty seven and William from and after the fifteenth day of January eighteen hundred and eighty nine said dates as to the said five children of the said Jane being fixed at or near the days when they respectively will attain the age of thirty five years. And I do hereby declare fix and determine that the state and condition of the issue that may be born of the said Jane and of the said Harriet and Maria on or before the days named above when they respectively are set free shall be that of slaves until such issue shall arrive at the age of thirty five years and in case of any such issue being females and their female descendants shall have issue during their respective periods of service then and in every such case the state and condition of such issue shall be that of slaves until such issue shall arrive at the age of thirty five years. [The negro woman Jane hereinbefore mentioned is the same conveyed by me in trust with their personal property to Zachariah Brown by assignment dated the twenty eighth day of December eighteen hundred and forty eight and recorded among |
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