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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 180   View pdf image
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immediately after the money so raised for the
purpose aforesaid to be manumitted and set
free.  And whereas the said Ann Gane did
by her said will authorise and empower
John Warren Osborn Sprigg Harwood and
Susanna Lane or either of them to manumit
and liberate the said negro Jacob.  Therefore I
Susanna Lane by the power vested to me
under the will aforesaid do liberate manumit
and set free and by these presents do hereby
release from slavery the said negro man named
Jacob and do declare him to be henceforth
free manumitted and discharged from all
manner of servitude agreeably to the will of
Ann Lane.  In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal
this twenty third day of April in the year of
our Lord eighteen hundred and twelve
Signed, Sealed and delivered
in the presence of                  Susana Lane   (seal)
Gideon White   Jn.o Mallonee

On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit:
Anne Arundel County to wit:  On this 23 day of
       eighteen hundred and twelve personally
appears Susanna Lane 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 acknowledged the same
to be her act and deed for the purposes within
mentioned and the negro man within named
to be henceforth manumitted and freed according
to the last will and testament of the within named
Ann Lane.      Acknowledged before
Chd                                                      Gideon White
3      Recorded the 23d day of April 1812


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
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