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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 225   View pdf image
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                         225

Exam.d
To all whom it may concern be it known that I Philip
B Key of the teretory of Columbia but now of Annapolis
in Anne Arundel County for divers good causes &
in consideration of two hundred Dollars to me in hand
paid have liberated manumitted and set free my negro
man William Bowser whom I heretofore purchased of
David Kerr he the said William being a hearty able bodied
young man about the age of thirty years ^and^ able
to gain a sufficient livelyhood and maintainance &
by these presents do hereby Liberate manumit & set
free the said negro man William Bowser
                               In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & seal this 10th day of July 1805
Signed Sealed & delivered
          In the presence of            Philip B. Key   (seal)
                Lewis Duvall
                Ths Harris Jun.r
                         on the back of the aforegoing deed was thus
endorsed Viz
                                 Ann Arundel County Sc.t  On this 10th
day of July 1805 the above named Philip B. Key appeared
before the subscriber and acknowledged the above
Instrument of writing to be his Act & Deed
                            Taken before
                                                       Lewis Duvall
Recorded the 11th day July 1805


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