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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 161   View pdf image
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and State of Maryland for divers good causes and
considerations me thereunto moving as also in
further consideration of five shillings current
money to me in hand paid the receipt whereof
I do hereby acknowledge have released from slavery
manumitted liberated and set free and by these
presents do hereby release from Slavery manumit
liberate and set free my negro man named
William Williams being of the age of forty two years
and able to work and gain a sufficient support
and him the said William 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 mark and affixed
my seal this third day of September eighteen hundred
and eleven                                            her
Signed Sealed and delivered      Eleanor + Williams   (seal)
in the presence of us                             mark
Lewis Neth J.r   Benja Childs

At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
Anne Arundel County Scilicit.  Be it remembered that
on this third day of September personally appears
Eleanor Williams party to the within instrument
of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of
the peace of the State of Maryland for said County
and acknowledges the same to be her act and deed
for the purposes within mentioned and the negro
man within named to be henceforth manumitted
and discharged from all services to her or to any
claiming under her and to be free and manumitted
                                                             according



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