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65 years and able to work and gain sufficient livelihood and maintenance as also her two infant children the one called Julilannah Jones aged about four years & the other called James Jones aged about one year and the said negro woman and her two children I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all manner of servitude to me my executors or administrators forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and nine signed sealed & delivered in the presence of Sally Ridgely (seal) J Belt on the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit Received on the day of the date within mentioned the sum of one dollar it being the consideration within mentioned Sally Ridgely witness J Belt anne arundel county to wit Be it remembered that on this nineteenth day of January 1809 personally appears Sally Ridgely party to the within instrument of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the state of maryland for the said county and acknowledges the same to be her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned and the negro woman and her children 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 act of assembly in such case made and provided acknowledged before John Sprigg Belt Recorded the 11.th Feby 1809 |
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