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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 110   View pdf image
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aforesaid David Weems and acknowledges the
foregoing instrument of writing to be his act and
deed for the purposes within mentioned and the
negroes therein mentioned to be manumitted over
to be free at the expiration of the terms therein
mentioned and discharged from all services to
him or to any claiming under him and to be free
and manumitted according to the act of assembly
in such case made and provided
Ex.d  Acknowledged before      R Welch of Ben
paid
3½   Recorded the 22d day of april 1819


       Know all persons before whose presence these
may come that I Thomas Francis of anne
arundel County and State of maryland for divers
good causes me thereunto moving do by these
presents liberate manumit and set free from
slavery my Son Samuel Francis whom I
heretofore purchased of major Edward Dorsey
Executor of the late Ruth Dorsey of County
aforesaid as soon as he the said Samuel Francis
arrives to the age of twenty five years and in
order that the time may be known when the
said Samuel is twenty five years of age I here
insert that my son Samuel Francis will be
twenty five years of age in the month of June
in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty Eight
and whereas my said son Samuel is now in
possession of a certain William Hinks tobarn
the Blacksmiths business to serve the said
Hinks untill he the said Samuel arrives to
the age aforesaid at which time the said
Samuel Francis is hereby declared to be free
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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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