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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 146   View pdf image
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       To all whom it may concern   Be it known
that I Henry Basford of ann arundel County
and State of maryland for divers good causes and
considerations me thereunto moving as also in further
consideration of Ten dollars to me in hand paid
have released from slavery liberated manumitted
and set free and by these presents do hereby release
from slavery manumit & set free on the Conditions
herein after mentioned the following negroes to wit
my negro woman Henny Johnson aged Eighteen
years to be free on the fourteenth day of December
one thousand Eight hundred & thirty seven and
her child mary aged four months to be free on
the fourteenth day of December one thousand Eight
hundred and forty seven and the issue of the said
negroes Henny and mary to be free on the
following times to wit: the males to be free when
they arrive at twenty five years of age and the
females at twenty one years of age and their issue
on the same Conditions for ever  and the said
negroes I do declare to be free manumitted and
discharged from all manner of servitude to me
my Executors administrators or assigns forever
on the terms above mentioned   In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this
twelvth day of February one thousand Eight
hundred & twenty
Signed Sealed and delivered
    in presence of                     Henry Basford  (seal)
Gideon White, Richard Tydings
          Gideon White J.r

On the back of the aforegoing deed was thus
written to wit:
       Rec.d on the day and date above mention
                                                                (ten)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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