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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 339   View pdf image
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State of Maryland anne arundel county to wit
       I Nicholas Harwood clerk of anne arundel county
court hereby certify that a negro man named Edward
Shorter who is now present and who has made application
to me for a certificate of his freedom has proved by testimony
which is satisfactory to me that he is a free man and
the said Edward Shorter is about five feet five and a
half inches high is of the age of about fifty two years
his complexion black was born and bred


State of maryland  anne arundel county Sc.t
I Nicholas Harwood clerk of ann arundel county
court.  Hereby certify that it appears by a deed of
Manumission from Mary Jiams to negro Will of the
county aforesaid bearing date on the twenty third day
of october in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and five and record in Liber A folio 244 one of
the manumission books of the county aforesaid that
freedom was thereby granted unto a negro man
named stated to be then of the age of twenty
years which said freedom was to take place
from the date of the said manumission
I further certify that a negro man named
Will now present and who has made
application to me for a certificate of his
freedom has proved by testimony which
is satisfactory to me that he is the identical
person who was manumitted by the above
mentioned deed of manumission   the said
negro man named will is about five feet eight
inches high and appears to be about the age


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