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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 162   View pdf image
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according to the act of Assembly in such cases
made and provided
Ch.d         acknowledged before         Joseph Sands
2¾      Recorded the 3.rd day of September 1811


    To all whomb it may concern  Be it Known
that I John Merriken of Ann Arundell County
in the State of Maryland for divers good causes
and considerations me thereunto moving do release
from Slavery manumitt liberate and set free
and by these presents do hereby release from
Slavery manumit liberate and set free my negro
man James Titus he being now of the age of
thirty nine years and able to work and gain a
sufficient livelyhood and maintenance and
him the said negro man James Titus I do
declare to be henceforth free manumitted and
discharged from the date hereof from all
manner of servitude or service to me my heirs
executors or administrators forever.   In Testamony
whereoff I hereunto set my hand and seal this
fourteenth day of September eighteen hundred and
eleven
Witness   Gideon White         John Merriken   (seal)
          Jno Mallonee

On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit:
Ann Arundel County Ss.t  On the 14 day of September
1811 appeared John Merriken before the subscriber
one of the Justices of the peace for the County
aforesaid and acknowledged the within instrument
of writing to be his act and deed according
                                                                   to


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