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131 to me in hand paid have released from slavery liberated manumitted and set free and by these presents do hereby release from slavery liberate manumit and set free my negro woman named Fanny Williams being of the age of thirty nine years and her Children to wit Louisa, Matilda, George, John & Eliza Ann and her the said negro woman named Fanny Williams and her Children aforesaid I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me my Executors or administrators forever. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 23rd day of October in the year of our Lord 1819 Signed Sealed & delivered in the presence of us. (The erasures & interlineations being first made Wm Brewer (seal) James Hunter Christopher Jackson On the back of the aforegoing deed was thus written to wit: Received on the day of the date of the within mentioned the sum of fifty dollars current money it being the full consideration money within mentioned Witness Wm Brewer (seal) James Hunter Anne Arundel County sss Be it remembered That on this 23.d day of October 1819 personally appears William Brewer 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 woman within named to be henceforth manumitted 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 cases made and provided Acknowledged before James Hunter chd Ex.d 3 Recorded the 23d day of October 1819 |
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