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154 aged about twenty years born in Baltimore County and raised in Anne Arundel County he being able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance his freedom however to commence from and after the expiration of eight years from the date of these presents and not before for which term I have sold the said slave Ned to Joseph Escavaille of the City of Baltimore by bill of sale bearing even date herewith; And him the said mulatto slave named ned from and after the expiration of the said term of eight years and not before I do hereby declare to be free manumitted and discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me my executors or administrators forever. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this eleventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven Signed Sealed & delivered in Augus.n Gambrill (seal) the presence of Theophilus F. Dougherty Ja.s P. Wiseman On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit State of Maryland Anne Arundel County ss Be it remembered that on the fourteenth day of May eighteen hundred and eleven before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the said County personally appeared Augustine Gambrill and acknowledged the within manumission to be his act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned according to the true intent and meaning thereof. In Witness |
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