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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 287   View pdf image
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Do hereby release from slavery manumit and set free
one Negro man Named Tom Hall age unknown He being
able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood & maintenance
and him the said Negro man named Tom Hall   We do
declare to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged
from all manner of Servitude or Service to us our
Executors or Administrators forever
                            In Testimony whereof We have hereunto
Set our hands and affixed our Seals this 26 July
1806
Signed Sealed & delivered             Edward Hall   (seal)
       In the presence of
          Cha D Hodges                     Mord Hall      (seal)
          Susanna W C Watts             Henry Hall     (seal)

On the back of the foregoing was thus Endorsed Vizt
Received 26 July 1806 The sum of two hundred dollars
Current money it being the full Consideration money
above mentioned
                                        Edwd Hall
                                        Mord Hall
                                        Henry Hall

Anne arundel County To wit
                      on this 26 day of July 1806 personally
appears Edward Mordecia and Henry Hall
partys to the within instrument of writing before me
the Subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of
Maryland for the Said County & acknowledged the same
to be their act and deed for the purposes within mentioned
and the Negro man ^within^ named to be henceforth manumitted and
discharged from all Services to us or to any Claiming
under us and to be free & manumitted according to the
Act of Assembly in Such Cases made & provided
                         Acknowledged before
Recorded 16th of Augt 1806                  Cha D Hodges


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
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