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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 360   View pdf image
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Anne Arundel County sc.  Be it remembered
That on this twenty seventh day of July 1816
personally appears Basil Shepherd party to the
within instrument of writing before me the
subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of
Maryland for the County aforesaid and
acknowledges the same to be his act and deed
for the purposes within mentioned and the
negroe within named to be henceforth manumitted
and discharged from all services to him or to
any claiming under him and to be free and
manumitted according to the Act of Assembly
in such cases made and provided
Ch.d                  Acknowledged before
                                           Frederick Harwood
3¾      Recorded the 6th day of August 1816


Maryland ss.   To all whom these presents shall
come I Rachel Deale of Anne Arundel County
for divers good causes and considerations me
thereunto moving declare free manumit liberate
and enfranchise the following negro to wit
Eleanor aged about Eighteen years to be free at
the end of my natural life and all her increase
that she may have I declare the aforesaid negro
Eleanor and all her increase to be free at the time
specified above from me my heirs Executors
and administrators in the manner and form
above mentioned  As Witness my hand and seal
this twenty ninth day of July Eighteen hundred
and sixteen                                           her
    Test   The word "her" being    Rachel X Deale  (seal)
first interlined      Thomas                     mark
Sellman                  her
                Elizabeth X Crosby
                            mark

     At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to
wit:      Anne Arundel County ss.   on the twenty
                                                                   (ninth)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
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