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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 189   View pdf image
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the said negro man named Richard 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 thirty
first day of May one thousand eight hundred
and Four                                            his
Signed Sealed and delivered      W.m WP Prout   (seal)
       In the presence of us                 mark
Lewis Duvall
Sam.l Sands

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

A. A. County Viz.t   Be it remembered that on
this 31.st day of may 1804 personally appears
Wm Prout party to the within instrument of writing
before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace
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 man within named to be hence
forth 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 the 31.st may 1804


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
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