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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 164   View pdf image
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                            164

To all whom it may concern be it Known that
I Sarah Hopkins of Anne Arundel County in the
State of Maryland for divers good causes and
considerations me thereunto moving as also in
further consideration of ten dollars current money
to me in hand paid have released from slavery
liberated manumitted and set free and by these
presents do hereby release from slavery liberate
manumit and set free my negro man named
Isaac his age unknown and able to work and
gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance
and him the said negro man named Isaac
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 hand and affixed my seal this twelfth
day September in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and eleven                her
Signed, Sealed and       Sarah X Hopkins   (seal)
delivered in the presence of    mark
Benj.a Allein   Mary A. Allein

On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit:
Anne Arundel County to wit:  On this twelfth
day of September eighteen hundred and eleven personally
appears Sarah Hopkins party to the within
instrument of writing before me the subscriber a
Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland for
the County aforesaid 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
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