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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 21   View pdf image
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have children in their servitude that their increase to be
free as they Come of Age that is to say boys at twenty one
and Girls at sixteen years hereby acknowledging the said
negroes Discharged from all Claim of service & right of
property whatever from me my heirs Executors or administrators
As witness my hand and Seal this third day of
January in the blessed year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and ninety eight
Signed Sealed & Acknowledged      Tho.s Whittington   (Seal)
in the presence of
William Whittington
W.m Weems

Ann Arundel County the third of January 1798  Then
Came Thomas Whittington before me one of the Justices
of the peace for the County aforesaid & acknowledged
the above Instrument of writing to be his Act & Deed
according to the intent & meaning thereof Acknowledged
before
2½                                                   Saml Harrison
Recorded 30 January 1798


John Weems
           to
Negro Charles
 Maryland sct  To all whom these presents

shall come Greeting I John Weems of Ann
Arundel County in the State of Maryland for divers good
Causes and Considerations me thereunto moving Do
hereby Declare free manumit and enfranchise the
negro following to wit Charles Aged about thirty
five years hereby Acknowledging the said negro
Discharged from all claim of service and right of
property whatever from me my heirs Executors or
administrators  As witness my hand & seal


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