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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 243   View pdf image
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                                     243

Exam.d
    Know all men by these presents That I
Hercules a free negro of Anne Arundel County in the
state of maryland for divers good Causes and Considerations
of thirty pounds Current money to me in hand paid
have released from Slavery liberated manumitted and Set
free and by the presents do hereby liberate manumit and
set free my negro woman named Murrier and her the
daughters Rachel and Eliza being under the age of
forty five years and able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance (which said negro Murrier
and her daughter Rachel I purchased of Mr Henry Hall
Dorsey on the sixteenth day of April seventeen hundred
and ninety eight and the said Eliza was born about
the month of June next after I purchased her said
mother)  And her the said Murrier and her daughters
Rachel and Eliza I do declare to be henceforth
free 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 Eighth day of June
in the year Eighteen hundred and five
Signed sealed & delivered
       In the presence of                                     his
       W J Govane                     Negro Hercules + (seal)
       Saml J Donaldson                                    mark

       On the back of the aforegoing was thus Endorsed Viz.t
       Anne Arundel County Sct
                       On this                 day of                     1805
                                                                            (personally


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
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