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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 121   View pdf image
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                        121

That on this ninth day of June Eighteen hundred
and Two personally appears John Joice party
to the within instrument of writing before me
the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the
State of maryland for the said County and
acknowledges the same to be his act and deed
for the purposes within mentioned and
the negro woman and child within named
to be henceforth manumitted and discharged
from all services to him or to any claiming
under him and to be free and manumitted
according to the act of assembly in such cases
made and provided   acknowledged before
                                        Lewis Duvall
Recorded 9th June 1802


Know all men by these presence that I John
Pitts of Anne Arundel County and State of maryland
for sundry good causes and considerations me there
unto moving do hereby manumit and set free at
the age of Twenty five years my negro boys Charles
and Benjamin the first aged Eighteen years the
4.th day of July 1809  The second aged four
years the 9th day of May last part to commence
free upon the 9th day of May 1823   And I do
discharge them from all servitude and forever
quit all right and all claim to them; at the above
mentioned age and upon the above mentioned
periods of time  For me my heirs executors or
administrators forever   In witness I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this 17th day of June 1802
Witness
James Mackubin                        John Pitts   (seal)
Robert Welch Jun.r


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
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