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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 140   View pdf image
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heirs executors and administrators in the manner and
form above mentioned viz  Dinah to be free on
the first day of March eighteen hundred and seventeen
and her increase as follows Males at the age of
Twenty one years and females at the age of Twenty
five years Sarah to be free on the first day of
march Eighteen hundred and Twenty seven.  As
Witness my hand and seal this 21.st day of april Eighteen
Hundred and Three
Witness
Rich.d Merriken            Jurningham Drury   (seal)
Charles Drury

Ann Arundel County on the 21.st day of April in the year
of our lord 1803 appeared before me the subscriber
one of the Justices of the peace for the County
aforesaid the within named Jerningham Drury
party to the within instrument of writing who
acknowledged the same to be his act and deed
and the signature and seal to be respectively his
                                     acknowledged before
                                     Richard Merriken
Recorded 30th April 1803


Know all men by these presents That I Catharine
Shipley for divers good causes and considerations as well
the regard I bear to the fidelity and upright obedience
heretofore shewn me thereto moving Do hereby exonerate
acquit liberate release manumit and set at
free and full liberty one negro man named
Sam known by the name of Shipleys Sam
and one negro woman the wife of said Sam
                                           named


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