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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 76   View pdf image
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                           76

Harrison I do declare to be henceforth free
manumitted and discharged from all manner
of servitude or service to me my heirs executors
or administrators.   In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
my seal the fourth day of September in the year
of eighteen hundred and nine
signed sealed & delivered               her
in the presence of                  Rachel + Rowles   (seal)
Chas Waters   Charles Stewart       mark

on the back of the aforegoing was endorsed to wit
Received on the day of the date above
mentioned the sum of ten dollars it being
the full consideration money above mentioned
Test   Chas Waters                        her
                                           Rachel + Rowles
                                                    mark

State of Maryland  Anne Arundel county to wit
on this fourth day of September 1809 personally
appeared Rachel Rowles 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 acknowledged the same to be her act and
deed for the purposes within mentioned and the negro woman
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 cases made and
provide
             acknowledged before Cha.s Waters
Recorded 14 Sep 1809


Know all men by these presents that I Sarah Meriweather
believing that natural freedom is the right of all
men given by almighty God do bind myself


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
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