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18 eighteen hundred and eight and a female child of the said Charity Folks named Charity I do hereby manumit Liberate and set free from and after the first day of January eighteen hundred and twelve In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal on this sixth day of December Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred & ninety seven Signed Sealed & Delivered in the presence of "the word "eighteen" in Mary Ridout (Seal) the 20 line being first interlined James Lloyd Horatio Ridout On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit Ann Arundel County to wit On the eighth day of December Anno Domini 1797 the within Mary Ridout Came before me one of the Associate Justices for the County afsd and Acknowledged the within Instrument of writing to be her Act and Deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned Taken before Samuel Ridout Recorded 14 December 1797
good Causes and Considerations me thereunto moving do hereby Declare free manumit and enfranchise the Negroes following to wit, one negro woman named Lydia aged twenty eight to be free the first day of July 1798 one negro Man named Nicholas aged twenty eight to be free the first day of January 1799 one |
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