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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 248   View pdf image
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negro Priss aged about three years to serve
until the twenty seventh day of January
in the year eighteen hundred and thirty five
and negro Nell aged about two years to serve
until the twenty seventh day of January in
the year eighteen hundred and thirty six
and the Children of the said female negroes
if any they should have during their times
of servitude also to serve the said John
Drummond Carter his executors administrators
or assigns until they shall respectively attain
the age of twenty five years.  And as I am
desirous of liberating and manumitting the
said negroes and their issue so as secure for
them the enjoyment of their freedom after
the expiration of respective times of servitude
as aforesaid.  Now Be it Known that I the
said Sophia G Ridgely for divers good causes
and considerations me thereunto moving as
also in the further consideration of one
dollar current money to me in hand paid
have released from slavery liberated
manumitted and set free and by these
presents do hereby liberate manumit
release from slavery and set free my negro
woman named Ment aged about about twenty
two years and able to work and gain a
sufficient livelihood and maintenance from
and after the twenty seventh day of January
in the year eighteen hundred and twenty
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