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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 271   View pdf image
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and the negro man therein named to be henceforth
free manumitted and discharged from all services
to her or any claiming under her agreeable to an
act of Assembly in such cases made and provided
Ex.d            acknowledged before
paid                                          W.m P Mathews
2¾      Recorded the 2.d day of June 1814


To all whom it may concern  Be it Known that
I Sarah Riggs of Anne Arundel County State of
Maryland for divers good causes and considerations
me thereunto moving as also for the further
consideration of the sum of five shillings current
money to me in hand paid the receipt whereof
I do hereby acknowledge have released from
slavery liberated manumitted and set free
the following negroes children of my
deceased servant Dinah viz Bill aged twenty
four years Jem aged twenty years Jenny aged
twenty one years John aged eighteen years
and Harriot aged sixteen years all of whom
are able to gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintenance and the said negroes viz Bill
Jem Jenny John and Harriot children of
the said Dinah I do hereby declare shall
be henceforth free manumitted and
discharged that is to say that as soon as
each and every of them shall have arrived
at the age of thirty years or at my death
which soever may first happen they and
each of them are hereby at such periods
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