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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
Volume 830, Page 89   View pdf image
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manumitted and set free and by these presents do hereby release
from slavery liberate manumit and set free my
negro girl named Sophia when she shall arrive
at the age of sixteen years which will be on
the ninth day of September in the year of our lord
one thousand eight hundred and twenty
two I do declare her thenceforth free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of servitude
and service to me my executors or administrators
forever.   In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal this sixteenth day
of april in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ten
Witness
R Welch of Ben &      William Collinson
Zach Duvall

on the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit
Ann Arundel county to wit, on this sixteenth
day of april personally appears William Collinson
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 his act
and deed for the purposes within mentioned
and the negro girl within mentioned
after the within mentioned term thenceforth
manumitted and discharged from all
service to him or any claiming under him
and to be free and manumitted
according to the act of Assembly in
such cases made and provided
    acknowledged before Jos Jenifer
Recorded 18.th April 1810


Know all Men by these presents that I John Chew Thomas of
ann arundel county and state of Maryland do hereby
set free manumit and grant freedom to all my
negroe slaves at the respective times and in the
manner following that is to say I set free manumit
                                                               (and)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816
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