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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 216   View pdf image
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the said negro man named Benjamin 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
third day of May in the year of our Lord 1813
Signed Sealed and delivered         George Watts   (seal)
in the presence of
Gideon White
Jno Mallonee

On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit
Received on the day of the date within
mentioned the sum of sixty pounds current
money it being the full consideration money
within mentioned
Witness
             Gideon White               George Watts   (seal)

Ann Arundle County to wit:  On this third day
of May personally appears George Watts 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
state of Maryland for the said County and
acknowledges the same to be his act and
deed for the purpose within mentioned
and the negro man within named to be
henceforth manumitted and discharged from
all services to him or to any claiming under
him and to be free and manumitted according
to the act of assembly in such cases made and
provided
Chd        acknowledged before
3                                                Gideon White
Recorded the 3.d day of may 1813


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