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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 331   View pdf image
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acknowledges the within instrument of writing to be
this 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
act of Assembly in such cases made and provided
                      acknowledged before
ch.d                                                Rezin Estep
3      Recorded the 26.th day of December 1815


To all whom it may concern  Be it Known that I
Nicholas Watkins 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 one dollar to me in hand
paid have released from slavery liberated manumitted
and set free and by these presents do hereby release
from slavery manumit and set free my negroe
girl named Louisa aged three years when the
said Louisa arrive to the age of sixteen years
after which time the said Louisa is thenceforward
declared by me to be released and set free from
slavery.  In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my
hand and affix my seal the thirteenth day of
January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and sixteen
Signd Seald & delivered in     Nich.s Watkins   (seal)
presence of
Henry Willing
Nich.s Worthington of Tho.s

On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit:
Anne Arundel County Sc.t  On the 13.th January 1816
came Nicholas Watkins before me a Justice of the
                                                                   peace


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
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