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280 of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid and acknowledges the same to be their act and deed for the purposes within mentioned and the negro woman within named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged from all services to them or to any claiming under them and to be free and manumitted according to the acts of Assembly in such cases made and provided ch.d acknowledged before Louis Gassaway 3 Recorded the 28.th day of June 1814 To all to whom these presents may concern Be it Known that Ann Lane of Anne Arundel County in the State of Maryland made her last will and testament in writing dated the thirtyeth day of March seventeen hundred and ninety eight which will is legally proved and recorded according to law in the Register of Wills Office for the County aforesaid and the said ANn Lane did devise under her said Will that a certain negro girl by the name of Peg daughter of Bett shoud be free when she arrived to the age of sixteen. 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 and set free the said negro Peg. Therefore I the said Susanna Lane by the power vested to me under the said Will do liberate manumit and set free |
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