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36 release unto the above named Polly and Charles all my right and all claims whatsoever as to their person or to any Estate they may acquire In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty third day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine Signed & Sealed in the presence of Richard Hopkins of Ger.d (Seal) Edward Hall Priscilla Hall On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit Memorandum to wit, On the twenty third day of February 1799 came Rich.d Hopkins of Ger.d before me the subscriber and Acknowledge this Instrument of writing to be his Act and Deed according to the direction of an Act of assembly in that case made and provided taken before Edward Hall Recorded 25 February 1799
State of Maryland for divers good Causes and Considerations me thereunto moving do hereby Declare free manumit and enfranchise the negro following to wit, negro Fanny aged fourteen years to be free at the age of eighteen years she & her issue forever hereby acknowledging the said negro discharged from all claim of service and |
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