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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 312   View pdf image
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    To all whom it may concern  Be it known that I John
Merriken of ann arundel county in the state of maryland
for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto
moving do release from slavery manumit liberate and
set free and by these presents do hereby release
from slavery liberate manumit and set free my
negro man Samuel after the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and twenty two being of the age of thirty eight
years and able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance and him the said
negro man Samuel 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
Richard Merriken               John Merriken   (seal)
Henry Duvall                  on the back of the
                                      aforegoing was thus endorsed s.t

Anne arundel County to wit   on this 18.th day of
may 1807 personally appeared John Merriken
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 said negro man within named
at the time above specified to be henceforth
manumitted and discharged from all


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