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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 294   View pdf image
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                            294.

Maryland for the said County and acknowledged the
same to be his Act and Deed for the purposes within
mentioned and the Negro woman and child within
named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged
from all services to him or to any Claiming under him
and to be free and manumitted according to the Act
of Assembly in Such Cases made and provided
                      Acknowledged Before
                                              Gideon White
Recorded the 4th of March 1807


Ex.d
Maryland Sc.t  To all whom these presents shall come
Greeting I Charles Williams of Anne Arundel County in the
State of Maryland for divers good causes and considerations
me thereunto moving do hereby free manumite and
enfranchise to following negro to wit  Sophia aged
about seventeen years free from the date hereof
Hereby acknowledging the said negro Discharged
from all claim of Service and right of property
whatever from me my Heirs executors or administrators
as witness my hand and seal this                  day of
          in the year of our blessed Lord one thousand
Eight hundred and six                             his
Signed sealed acknowledg.d      Charles + Williams   (seal)
in the presence of                                 mark
Cepharis Ward
Elizabeth Tongue  on the back of the aforegoing was thus endors.d
A. A. County August 8.th 1806.  Then came Charles Williams before me
one of the Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid and acknowledged
the above Instrument of writing to be his act and deed for the
true purpose and meaning thereof acknowledged before
                                                                      Tho.s Tongue
Recorded August 9 1806


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
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