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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 159   View pdf image
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and set free and by these presents do hereby release
from slavery liberate manumit and set free my negro
boy named Bett being about twelve years and six
months old and able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance to be free when he arrives
to the age of thirty five years on the fourth day of
November Eighteen hundred and forty two and him
the said Negro boy named Bill I do declare to be free
on the fourth day of November in the year Eighteen
hundred and forty two and from that time to be
manumitted and discharged from all manner of
servitude or service to me my Executors or administrators
for ever   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal this fourth day
of may Eighteen hundred and twenty
Signed Sealed and delivered
       in presence of
       Benjamin Wells               Joseph Bucey  (seal)
       Robert Franklin

       on the back of the aforegoing deed was thus
written to wit:   anne arundel County to wit:  On this
fourth day of may Eighteen hundred and twenty personally
appears Joseph Bucy party to the within instrument
of writing before me the subscriber a justice of the
State of maryland for the County aforesaid and
acknowledges the same to be his act and deed for the
purposes within mentioned and the negro within named
to be at the expiration of the time within mentioned to
be manumitted and discharged from all service 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
Chd            Acknowledged before   Robert Franklin
Ex.d
3½   Recorded the 5th day of may 1820


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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