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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 356   View pdf image
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                          356

Assembly in such cases made and provided
ch.d                             Gerrard H. Snowden
1½      Recorded the 10.th day of July 1816


To all whom it may concern.  Be it known
that I Nicholas J Watkins of the City of
Annapolis and the State of maryland for divers
good causes and considerations me thereunto
moving as also in further consideration of One
Dollar Current money to me in hand paid have
released from slavery liberated manumitted and
set free and by these presents do hereby release
from slavery liberate manumit and set free
my negro woman named mary aged twenty
seven years to be free and the first day of January
one thousand Eight hundred and twenty nine
Also Negro Tom aged one year to be free on the
first day of January one thousand Eight hundred
and forty one and the said negro woman named
mary and Negro boy Tom I do henceforth
declare to be free at the Expiration of the terms
above mentioned manumitted and discharged
from all manner of servitude or service to me
my Executors or administrators forever   In
Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal this nineteenth day of July
in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight
hundred and sixteen
    Signed Sealed and delivered
       in the presence of us          N J Watkins  (seal)
          Frederick Harwood
          James Iglehart Jun.r

             On the back of the aforegoing was thus written
to wit      Be it remembered that on this
nineteenth day of July in the year of our Lord
                                                             (one)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
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