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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 18   View pdf image
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and set free and by these presents do release from slavery
liberate manumit and set free the said negro boy
named Tom Davis from and after the twentieth day
of January Eighteen hundred and forty.  I do declare
the said negro boy named Tom Davis to be free
manumitted and discharged from all manner of
servitude or service to me my heirs Executors or
administrators for ever after the expiration of the
time above mentioned  In Testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal
this Eighteenth day of January Eighteen hundred
and seventeen
    Signed Sealed and delivered
       in the presence of us            John Thompson  (seal)
          Frederick Harwood
                James Green

           On the back of the aforegoing deed was thus written
to wit:      State of Maryland anne arundel County ss
       Be it remembered That on this Eighteenth day of
January Eighteen hundred and seventeen personally
appears John Thompson party to the within instrument
of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the
peace of the State and County aforesaid and acknowledges
the same to be his act and deed for the purposes
within mentioned and the negro boy 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 me
                                        Frederick Harwood
paid
       Recorded the 20.th day of January 1817


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