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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 246   View pdf image
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and by these presents   Do hereby release from Slavery
liberate manumit and Set free my negro man named
Richard otherwise called Richard Gurton who is able
to work and gain a Sufficient livelihood and maintenance
and him the said negro man named Richard otherwise
called Richard Gurton 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 &
affixed my seal this twenty Eighth day of October in the
year of our lord one thousand Eight hundred and five
Signed Sealed and delivered
    In the presence of us                        her
                Edw.d Poole               Sarah + Wheeler   (seal)
                Gideon White                     mark

On the back of the aforegoing was thus Endorsed to wit
Received on the day of the date within mentioned the
sum of fifty dollars Current money it being the full
Consideration money within mentioned
Witness                                               her
                Edwd Poole                Sarah x Wheeler   (seal)
                                                          mark

Ann Arundel County Sc.t
                                        Be it remembered that on
this twenty Eighth day of October in the year of our lord one thousand
Eight hundred and five personally appears Sarah Wheeler
party to the within instrument of writing before me the Subscriber
a Justice of the peace of the state of maryland for the said
county & acknowledges the same to be her Act & Deed for the purposes
therein mentioned & the negro man within named to be henceforth manumitted
& discharged from all services to her or to any
                                                          (claiming)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
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