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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 39   View pdf image
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from slavery liberate manumitted and set free my negro
girl named Fanny being of the age of fifteen years and
able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintenance and her the said negro girl named
Fanny I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of servitude or
service to me my executors or administrators forever
provided nevertheless that the said negro girl
named Fanny do serve and remain with me for the
term of ten years from the ninth day of april eighteen
hundred and eight         In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty
eighth day of may in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and eight
signed sealed & delivered        Deborah Ridgely   (seal)
in the presence of us
R G Stockett                        on the back of the aforegoing
Margaret Dorsey                  was thus endorsed to wit

Anne Arundel county Sc.t   Be it remembered that on
this twenty eighth day of may 1808 personally appears Debby
Ridgely party to the within instrument of writing before me
the subscriber a justice of the peace for state of maryland
for the said county and acknowledges the same
to be her act and deed for the purposes within mentioned
and the negro girl within named to be henceforth
manumitted and discharged from all services to her
or to any claiming under her and to be free and manumitted
according to the provisions therein contained & according
to the act of assembly in such cases made and
provided                     acknowledged before
                                                       R. G. Stockett
Recorded 13 June 1808


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