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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 311   View pdf image
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                                    311.

and by these presents do hereby release from slavery
liberate manumit and set free my negro man Charles after
the year of our Lord 1823 being of the age of thirty five
years and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood
and maintenance and him the said negro man
CHarles I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted
and discharged at the time above specified from
all manner of servitude or service to me my executors or
administrators forever.      In testimony whereof I
hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth day
of may 1807
Witness      Richard Merriken
                  Joseph Boone               Henry Duvall

on the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit
on this 18.d day of may 1807 personally appeared Henry
Duvall party to the within instrument of writing before
me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the
State of maryland and the said county and
acknowledged the same to be his act and deed
for the purposes therein mentioned and the negro
man within named at the time above specified
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
Recorded 27.th may 1807      Richard Merriken


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