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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 163   View pdf image
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to the true intent and meaning thereof and the
act of Assembly in such cases made and provided
chd                                             Gideon White
2      Recorded the 14.th 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 manumit liberate and set free my negro
woman Murriah she being now of the age of thirty
five years and and able to work and gain a
sufficient livelyhood and maintainance and her
the said negro woman Murriah I do declare to be
henceforth free manumitted and discharged from
the date hereoff 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 for the purposes therein
mentioned according to the true intent and meaning
thereof and the act of assembly in such case made
and provided
ch.d                                             Gideon White
2      Recorded the 14.th day of September 1811


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