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293 maintenance and her the said negro woman named Nanny Barick I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me my executors or administrators forever In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty second day of March in the year of our Lord 1824 signed sealed and delivered in the presents of Hester Hood (seal) Wm Hall Jun.r Eliza Hood At the foot of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit Received on the day of the date above mentioned the sum of one hundred dollars Current money it bein the full Consideration money mentioned Hester Hood (seal) A. A. County to wit On this 22d day of March 1824 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 purpose above mentioned and the negro woman above 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 Chd acknowledged before Wm Hall Jun.r 2½ Recorded the 23d day of August 1824 Know all men by these presents that I Beal Owens of anne arundel County and state of Maryland believing that natural freedom is the right of all men given by almighty God have therefore released from slavery manumitted and set free and by these presents do (release) |
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