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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 300   View pdf image
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and for divers of other good causes and considerations me
thereunto moving do by these presents on and after the
Eighteenth day of October in the year eighteen hundred
and eighteen release from slavery my negro Girl
named Jenny now fifteen years of age hereby declaring
the said negro Girl on and after the before mentioned
period to be released from Slavery liberated manumitted
and set free from me my heirs executors administrators
and assigns and from all manner of persons claiming
by from or under me my heirs or assigns.  In witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and six
Witness   Larkin Shipley         John Cord   (seal)
               G. Watkins      on the back of the aforegoing
                                      was thus endorsed to wit

Anne Arundel County Sc.t  on the 23.d day of December 1806
appears John Cord party to the above instrument of
writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace
of the county aforesaid and acknowledges the same to
be his Act and Deed according to the true intent and
meaning thereof and the act of assembly in such cases
made and provided.   Acknowledged before
                                                    G. Watkins
Recorded Feby 10.th 1807


Ex.d
d.d
To all whom it may concern, Know ye that I Nicholas
Merriweather of Anne Arundel County and State of
maryland believing that all man kind are by nature
Equally free and at the same time abhoring that practice
which I believe violates this law of nature and of God
do for and in consideration as above bind myself my
heirs executors and administrators to make and set free
and by these presents do manumitt Emancipate enfranchise
Liberate and forever release the two Boys


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
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