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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 124   View pdf image
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                                124

Lord one thousand Eight hundred and nineteen
Test   R Welch of Ben         William P Hardisty  (seal)
          James Smith

    On the back of the aforegoing deed was thus written
to wit:   anne arundel County sc  On this 7th day of
august 1819 personally appears William P Hardisty before
me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace for anne arundel
county and acknowledges the within instrument of
writing to be his act and deed for the purposes therein
mentioned and the negroes within named to be
manumitted and set free agreeable to the tenor therein
mentioned 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
Ch.d      Acknowledged before      R Welch of Ben
Ex.d d.d
3¼   Recorded the 7th day of august 1819


       Know all men by these presents that I Susan
W Franklin of anne arundel County in the State
of maryland for divers good causes and Considerations
me thereunto moving have manumitted emancipated
liberated and set free and by these presents do
manumit emancipate liberate and set free my
negro Girl Harriot to be absolutely free and
discharged from all claims of servitude to myself
my heirs Executors and administrators in four
years from this date and her issue born between
this date and the expiration of the said term
of four years from this date to be free and absolved
from slavery at the age of twenty one years  And
I do hereby declare the said Girl Harriot to be
absolutely free and discharged from all claims
of servitude to myself my heirs Executors and
                                                       (adminis=)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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