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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 218   View pdf image
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Test my hand and seal thirty twenty six day of January one
thousand Eight hundred and five
    Witness
                Joseph Selby                  Charles Pettibone   (seal)
                Henry Duvall

       Anne Arundel County Sc.t  January 26th
1805.  Charles Pettibone Personally appeared before me
the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for the County
aforesaid & Acknowledged the within Instrument of writing
to be his Act and Deed according to the true intent & meaning
thereof
                                                          Joseph Selby
Recorded the 21st of February 1805


Examd
          Know all men by these Presents that I Araminta Dorsey
beleiving liberty & freedom to be the Equal right of all persons do
by these presents liberate & Set free from bondage my following negroes
on the following terms Viz my negro woman Anna my
negro Girl Charlotte my negro mary to be free to all Intent and
purposes them & their increase from this date my negro Girl Lucy
to be free at the End of Ten years from the date of these presents
her & her increase my negro Girl Susanna to be free at the end of
thirteen years from this date her and her increase my negro Girl Julianna
to be free at the End of fifteen from this date her & her increase
my negro Boy William to be free at the End of Twenty three
                                                                         (years)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
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