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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 288   View pdf image
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or administrators forever   In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this sixth
day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty four
signed sealed & delivered in
the presence of                        Gerard Hobbs  (seal)
Nathan Shipley
Henry Whalen

At the foot of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit
Anne Arundel County to wit   On this sixth day of July
1824 personally appears Gerard Hobbs 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 within mentioned & the negro woman and her child
Leathy within named to be henceforth manumitted discharged
from all services to him or to any claiming under him and
to be free & manumitted according to the act of assembly in
such cases made and provided
Chd         acknowledged before            Nathan Shipley
3   Recorded the 31st day of July 1824


To all whom it may Concern be it known that I Sarah
Norris of anne arundel County in the state of Maryland for
divers good Causes and Considerations me thereunto moving
have and will release from slavery liberated manumitted
and set free and by these presents do hereby release from
slavery liberate manumit and set free my negroes to wit
James Dennis aged twenty two years to be free the 5th day of
April one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven mariah
aged twenty years to be free the 13th day of February one
thousand eight hundred and twenty nine John aged
Eighteen years to be free the first day of August one
                                                                   (thousand)



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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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