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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 214   View pdf image
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                                     214

and by these presents do release from slavery liberate
manumit and set free the aforesaid slave Eliza
Ann aged as aforesaid and the aforesaid matthew
aged as aforesaid from the time that they the
said Eliza Ann and Matthew shall have
respectively attained the age of seventeen years
as aforesaid and them the said negro Children
named Eliza Ann and matthew as aforesaid
I do declare to be thenceforth 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 seventh
day of august in the year of our Lord One
thousand Eight hundred and twenty one
Signed Sealed and delivered
    in the presence of us
       Joshua Blacks            Geo: Howard (seal)
       Nathan Shipley

       On the back of the aforegoing deed was thus
written to wit:      Anne Arundel County to wit
Be it remembered That on this seventh day of
August in the year of our Lord one thousand
Eight hundred and twenty one personally appears
George Howard 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 his
act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned
and the negro Children therein named to be
from the time specified in the same thenceforth
manumitted and discharged from all
services to him or to any claiming under him
                                                    (and)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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