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202 free. And whereas the said Ann Lane did by her said Will authorise and empower John Warren Osborn Sprigg Harwood and Susanna Lane or either of them to manumit liberate the said Negro John. Therefore I the said Susanna Lane by the power vested to me under the said will do liberate manumit and set free and by these presents do hereby release from Slavery the said Negro John and declare him to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all manner of servitude agreeably to the will of the said Ann Lane In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this eighth day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirteen Signed Sealed and delivered Susana Lane (seal) In the presence of Gideon White Christopher Hohne On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit: Anne Arundel County to wit. On this eighth day of January eighteen hundred and thirteen personally appeared 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 boy within named to be henceforth manumitted and freed according to the last will and testament of the within named Ann Lane Chd Acknowledged before Gideon White 3 Recorded the 8.th day of January 1813 |
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