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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 177   View pdf image
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within mentioned and the negroes within named to
be henceforth manumitted and discharged from all
services at the ages within specified or to any claiming
under them according to the act of assembly in such
cases made and provid
paid      Acknowledged before      Henry Cord
3   Recorded the 4.th day of January 1821


   To all whom it may Concern  Be it known
That I mary merriken of anne arundel County in
the State of maryland for divers good causes and me
thereunto moving Do hereby release from slavery
liberate manumit and set free three negroes to wit
my negroe woman Charity on the first day of
January Eighteen hundred and twenty seven my
negroe Girl Peggy on the first day of January
Eighteen hundred and forty five.  Also my negro boy
Henry on the first day of January Eighteen hundred
and forty nine with all the Children the above
named negro woman Charity may henceforth
have where the males shall arrive at the full
age of thirty years and the females at the full
age of twenty Eight years.  I do declare the above
named negroes at the expiration of the respective
times above mentioned to be free 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 twelveth day of January
in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and
twenty one
Signed Sealed and delivered
       in presence of                  Mary Merriken  (seal)
    Henry Duvall
       R.d H merriken
                                                                   On



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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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