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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 126   View pdf image
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presents do release from slavery manumit and set
free my two negro men William Chalmers and Basil
Smith William aged about thirty two and Basil
about thirty four years both of healthy Constitutions
sound in body and mind and Capable by labour
to procure to themselves sufficient food and raiment
and other requisite necessaries of life from and after
the twenty fifth day of november in the year Eighteen
hundred and twenty seven.   In Testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and seal this tenth day
of September Eighteen hundred and nineteen
Signed Sealed and delivered
    in the presence of
       Tho.s Furlong         Sarah Ann Hatherly  (seal)
       Wm Brown

    On the back of the aforegoing deed was thus written to wit:
    Anne Arundel County to wit:   Acknowledged before
me one of the Justices of the peace in and for the
county aforesaid by the above named Sarah A
Hatherly as her act and deed this 10th day of September
1819                                  Tho.s Furlong
ch.d  
Ex.d
2¼   Recorded the 11th day of September 1819


       This Indenture Witnesseth that I Joseph R
Hopkins of the city of Philadelphia Counsellor at law
for divers good causes and considerations me hereunto
moving have released from slavery manumitted and
set free and by these presents do release from slavery
manumit and set free my negro man Benjamin
Bacon being under forty five years of age of a
healthy constitution sound in mind and body and
Capable by labour to procure to him sufficient food
and raiment with other requisite necessaries of life
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand &
seal the twenty fifth day of September in the year
                                                                   (of)



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