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183 do hereby release from slavery liberate manumit and set free my negro man named Samson Frazier being of the age of thirty eight years and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood maintenance and him the said negro man named Samson I do declare to be henceforth 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 tenth day of march in the year of our Lord 1821 Signed Seal and delivered in the presents of Joseph Hopkins Hester Hood (seal) Eliza Hood on the back of the aforegoing deed was thus written to wit: Received on the day of the date above mentioned the sum of seven hundred dollars Current money it being the full consideration money above mentioned Hester Hood (seal) Anne A County to wit: on this tenth day of march personally appears Hester Hood 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 her act and deed for the purposes within mentioned and the negro man within named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged from all services to her or to any claiming under her and to be free and manumitted according to the act of assembly in such cases made and provided paid Acknowledged before Theodore M Williams 3 Recorded the 10th day of march 1821 |
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