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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 87   View pdf image
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eight and twenty years and able to work and
gain a sufficient livelihood and maintainance
and him the said negro man named James
Davis I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of servitude or
service to me my heirs executors or administrators
forever,   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal this twenty fourth
day of the eleventh month in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine
signed sealed & delivered
    in the presents of               Mary Harrison   (seal)
Tho.s Norris of Tho.s
Sarah Norris

on the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit
Ann Arundel county to wit   on this eighth day
of Feby 1810 personally appears Mary Harrison 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
within mentioned and the negro man within named
to be henceforth manumitted and discharged from
all services to her or any claiming under her and to be
free and manumitted according to the act of
assembly in such cases made and provided
acknowledged before            Jo.s Jenifer
Recorded 24th march 1810


To all whom it may concern be it known that I Thomas
Norris of Tho.s of ann arundel county in the State
of Maryland for divers causes and consideration me
thereunto moveing as also in further consideration
of one hundred dollars current money to me
paid have released from slavery liberated
                                           (manumitted)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
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