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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
Volume 825, Page 91   View pdf image
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                                  91

Ex.d
Leonard Scott
          to
Lucy Scott
 To all whom it may concern be it known that I
Leonard Scott of the City of Annapolis in the
State of Maryland for diver's good causes and
considerations me thereunto moving a sale in further consideration
of the sum of five shillings current money to me
in hand paid have released from Slavery, liberated
manumitted and set free and by these presents do
release from Slavery, manumit, liberate and set free
my negro girl named Lucy Scott, being of the age of
Fourteen years or thereabouts and whom I purchased
of and from a certain Joseph S. Belt of Montgomery
County in the state aforesaid and her the said
negro Girl named Lucy Scott I do declare to be henceforth
free manumitted and discharged from all
manner of servitude or service to me my executors
or administrators forever   In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this
21.d day of October one Thousand eight hundred and one
Signed Sealed and delivered
    In the presence of                  Leonard Scott   (seal)
James Mackubin
Robert Welch Jun.r

On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed Viz.t
Received on the day of the date within mentioned
the sum of five shillings current money it being
the full consideration within mentioned
witness                                    Leonard Scott
James Mackubin

Anne Arundel County sc.t  Be it remembered that on this
day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred
and one personally appeared Leonard Scott party to
the within instrument of writing before the subscribers two
of the Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid
and acknowledges the same to be his act and deed for the
purposes within mentioned and the negro girl within
named 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 22.nd October 1801         James Mackubin


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807
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