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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 281   View pdf image
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and by these presents do hereby release from slavery
the said Negro Peg and declare her to be henceforth
free manumitted and discharged from all manner
of servitude agreeably to the will of the said Ann
Lane.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal this ninth day of
July in the year of our Lord 1814
Signed Sealed and delivered     Susanna Lane   (seal)
in the presence of
R. Welch of Ben
Tho.s G Alexander

On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit:
Anne Arundel County to wit:  On this 9.th day of
July eighteen hundred and fourteen personally appeared
Susanna Lane 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 acknowledged the same to be her act and
deed for the purposes within mentioned and the
negro girl within named to be henceforth
manumitted and freed according to the last will
and testament of the within named Ann Lane
                Acknowledged before
chd                                       R. Welch of Ben
3¼   Recorded the 9.th day of July 1814


To all whom it may concern  Be it Known that I
Benjamin Wells of Anne Arundel County in the State
of Maryland for divers good causes and considerations
me thereunto moving as also in further consideration
of the sum of three hundred dollars current money
to me in hand paid have released from slavery
                                                          liberated


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