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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 207   View pdf image
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do hereby release from slavery liberate manumit and
set free my son Horace Bishop being about the age
of thirteen years and him the said Horace Bishop
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 twenty third day of July
in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred
and twenty one
Signed Sealed and delivered
       in the presence of
       Wm S Green                     William Bishop  (seal)
       Richd J Cowman

       on the back of the aforegoing deed was thus
written to wit:   Received the day and date above
mentioned the sum of five shillings Current money
being the Consideration money within mentioned
Witness                                       William Bishop
             Wm S Green

       Anne Arundel County to wit:   Be it remembered
That on this twenty third day of July in the year of
our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty
one personally appears William Bishop party to the
within instrument of writing before me the subscriber
a Justice of the peace of the State of maryland in and
for the County aforesaid and acknowledges the
same to be his act and deed for the purposes within
mentioned and the within named Horace Bishop
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
             Acknowledged before      Gideon White
3   Recorded the 28th day of July 1821


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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