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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 311   View pdf image
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this 16th day of June 1815
Signed Sealed and delivered                  J. T. Canley   (seal)
in presence of                                   attorney for Ann Sprigg
Alexander H. Boteler
paid
Ex.d d.d
2¼      Recorded the 8th day of July 1815


Whereas I John Chew Thomas of Ann Arundel County
and State of Maryland on the twelfth day of February
eighteen hundred and twelve did by deed of manumission
executed and recorded in the Clerks office of the
aforesaid County according to law grant freedom to
sundry female slaves therein mentioned at the
several and respective periods of time therein
specified and did further declare the condition
of the children who should be born of the said
females before the time fixed for their emancipation
to be as follows the males to be free as they should
arrive to the age of twenty one years and the females
as they should arrive to the age of eighteen years as
by the said deed of manumission will fully
appears.  Now be it Known that I do hereby set free
manumit and grant freedom to all and every
female that has been or may be born of any
slave manumitted by me before the time
specified for the freedom of the mother in the
following manner that is to say I grant
freedom to each and every such female when
she may arrive to the age limited by law or
custom of white female children to be free who
are bound to service which age is at present the
age of sixteen years.  And I do further declare and
                                                                   make


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
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