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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 22   View pdf image
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                             22

Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and five
Signed Sealed and delivered
    in presence of                     Jn.o Brice  (seal)
          Lewis Duvall

    Sept.r 16.th 1805  Then appeared before me one of
the Justices of the peace for ann arundel County
John Brice who acknowledged the above instrument
of writing to be his act and deed and that the
several negroes above mentioned to be the right
and property of the above named Joseph Selby
for the term therein specified
chd         Acknowledged before      Lewis Duvall
6½   Recorded the 27th day of January 1817


          State of Maryland Anne Arundel County ss
                      To all whom it may concern  Be it known
that I John Forty now of the City of annapolis
in the State aforesaid for divers good causes and
considerations me thereunto moving as also in
further consideration of the sum of five shillings
current money to me in hand paid have released
from slavery liberated manumitted and set free
and by these presents do hereby release from slavery
liberate manumit and set free my negro woman
named Henny being of the age of forty years
and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood
and maintenance and her the said negro woman
named Henny 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
ninth day of January in the year of our Lord
one thousand Eight hundred and seventeen


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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