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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 169   View pdf image
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current money to me in hand paid have released
from slavery liberated manumitted and set free
and by these presents do hereby release from
slavery liberate manumit and set free my
negro Woman named Polly Prout being of
the age of thirty six years and her the said
negro woman named Polly Prout I do declare
to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged
from all manner of servitude or service to
me my executors or administrators forever
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal this nineteenth
day of January in the year of our lord one
Thousand eight hundred and Four
Signed Sealed and delivered               his
       In the presence of            William WP Prout   (seal)
Lewis Duvall                                     mark
John H. Clements

On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed Viz.t
Received on the day of the date within mentioned
the sum of five shillings current money it being the full
consideration money within mentioned
Witness                                          his
Lewis Duvall                     William WP Prout
                                                     mark

Ann Arundel County Viz.t  Be it remembered that on
this nineteenth day of January one thousand eight
hundred and four personally appears William
Prout before me the subscriber a Justice of the
peace of the State of Maryland for said
County and acknowledged the within instrument
of writing to be his act and deed for the purposes
                                                    therein



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