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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 44   View pdf image
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under him and to be free and manumitted
according to act of assembly in such cases made
and provided         acknowledged before
                                       OS. S. Harwood
Recorded 23.d July 1808


I John Cowman of Ann Arundel county in the
province of maryland do hereby set free from bondage
my negro woman named Phanny aged about twenty five
years and also her three children namely Mariah
Henrietta and Betsy and do for myself my executors
and administrators release unto the aforesaid negro
woman and children as nam'd all my right and
claim as to her and her children or to any estate
they may acquire hereby declaring the said negro
woman named Phanny and three children as named
to be absolutely free without any interruption as also my
negro woman named Florer when she arrives to age of
eighteen which will be in the twelfth month eighteen
hundred and eight and lastly my negro girl named
Beck when she arrives to the age of eighteen which
will be in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen
and in the eleventh month they ^to^ being absolutely
free when they arrive to the years aforesaid
without any interruption from me or any
claiming under me and a right to any estate they
may acquire they to be absolutely free.  In witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
this the twentieth of the seventh month eighteen hundred
& eight
signed sealed & delivered         John Cowman   (seal)
in the presence of
Gideon White, John M. Sewell


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