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273 causes and considerations me thereunto moving as also in further consideration of the sum of five shillings current money to me in hand paid do hereby release from slavery liberate manumit and set free the following negroes children of my former servant Mack heretofore manumitted by me Zac aged twenty seven years Austin otherwise called Gustavus aged twenty five years Ephraim aged twenty one years Nack aged twenty years Anny aged eighteen years Delia aged sixteen years Rezin aged twelve years Maria aged ten years and Caroline aged eight years all of whom are healthy and able to gain a livelihood and maintinance and the said negroes viz Zac Austin alias Gustavus Ephram Nack Anny Delia Rezin Maria and Caroline I do hereby declare shall henceforth be 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 decease which soever may first happen they and each of them are hereby at such periods released from all servitude or service to me my executors or administrators forever according to the before mentioned conditions. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 18.th day of May in the year of our Lord 1814 Signed Sealed & delivered in Sarah Riggs (seal) presence of Charles G. Worthington W.m P Mathews |
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