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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 16   View pdf image
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day of august 1807 personally appears Susanna Foster party to the
within instrument of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of
the peace of the state of maryland for the said county and
acknowledges the same to be her act and deed for the
purposes therein mentioned and the negro man within named
to be manumitted liberated and free after the decease of the
said Susanna Foster or to any claiming under her and to be
free and manumitted according to the act of assembly in
such cases made and provided
                      acknowledged before Thomas Sellman
Recorded Sept.r 24.th 1807


State of Maryland ann arundel county Sc.t    Know all
men by these presents that I Samuel Ridout of the county afores.d
in and for divers considerations do hereby liberate manumit and
discharge from slavery from and after the first day of January
which will be in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
twenty a negro boy named James Ross aged about two years son
of a negro woman named Hannah Ross and the said James Ross
I do declare to be on the day above mentioned freed manumitted
and discharged from all manner of service or servitude to
me my executors or administrators and from all claim
or right of servitude by me my executors or administrators
forever and I do also by these presents agree and permit
a certain negro woman named Phoebe Richardson
grandmother of the said James Ross in consideration
that she will feed clothe and maintain the said James
Ross to retain and keep him in her possession until the
period above limitted and appointed when his freedom
shall commence and take effect by virtue of these presents
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
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