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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 361   View pdf image
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                               361

ninth day of July Eighteen hundred and sixteen
appeared before me the one of the Justices of the
peace for the County aforesaid Rachel Deale party
to the above instrument of writing and acknowledged
the same to be her act and deed and the signature
and seal thereto affixed to be respectively hers for
the purpose above mentioned
Ch.d            Acknowledged before   Thomas Sellman
2      Recorded the 12th day of August 1816


    To all whom it may concern  Be it known that I
Walter Cross of the City of Annapolis and State of
Maryland for divers good causes and considerations
me thereunto moving as also in further consideration
of five shillings Current money to me in hand
paid have released from slavery my negro boy
named Dick being about the age of fourteen
years and able to get his living have liberated
manumitted and set free and by these presents
do release from slavery liberate manumit and
set free the said negro boy Dick from and after
the fourth day of April Eighteen hundred and
thirty three I do declare the said negro boy Dick
to be free manumitted and discharged from all
manner of servitude or service to me my heirs
Executors or administrators forever after the
expiration of the time above mentioned.  In
Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal this thirteenth day of august
in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight
hundred and sixteen
Signed Sealed and delivered
    in the presence of               Walter Cross  (seal)
       Robert Steuart
       Frederick Harwood
                                                                (At)



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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
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