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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 299   View pdf image
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    Know all men by these presents that I James Anderson of
ann arundell County and state of Maryland for divers good
Causes and Considerations me thereunto moving as also for the
sum of one dollar do hereby set free manumit and liberate
my negro man Jacob aged about forty four years immediately
on my decease and by these presents do declare and release
from slavery on my decease the said slave Jacob who is in
the hire and Employ of James McCulloch of Baltimore County
and for the safety and security that the said Jacob shall not
remain in slavery longer than my decease I hereby enjoin and
require of my executors or any other or all persons claiming
under me to procure to the said Jacob his freedom and to
defend the same against all persons claiming or to claim  In
Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
seventeenth day of November one thousand eight hundred
and twenty four
signed sealed & delivered in presence     James Anderson (seal)
of Witnesses   William D Merriken
                      An.o Warfield

At the foot of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit
On the 17th day of November 1824 appeared James
Anderson before the subscriber a Justice of the peace for
ann arundle county and acknowledged the foregoing
Instrument of writing to be his act and Deed for the
purposes within mentioned and the acts of assembly in
such case made and provided
paid            acknowledged before      William D Merriken
Ex.d d.d
2½   Recorded the 5th day of January 1825


This Indenture Witnesseth that I Rachel Snowden of
Anne Arundel County and state of Maryland for and in
Consideration of the sum of one dollar current money to
                                                                         (me)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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