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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 301   View pdf image
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of Maryland for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto
moving do release from slavery manumitt liberate and set free
and by these presents do hereby release from slavery liberate
manumit and set free the following negroes to wit negro
girl Maria (daughter of Lydia when she shall arrive at the
age of sixteen negro boy Isaac on the first day of January
eighteen hundred and forty six negro Harriott on the first
day of January eighteen hundred and forty nine negro boy
John on the first day of January eighteen hundred and fifty
one negro Matilda on the first day of January eighteen
hundred and fifty four all of whom at the respective
periods above specified being able to procure a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance the aforementioned negroes
I do declare to be free manumitted and discharged as they
respectively arrive at the periods above specified from all
manner of servitude or service to me or any claiming under
me forever   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal the eighth day of January one
thousand eight hundred and twenty five             her
Witness   R H Merriken                        Jemima + Duvall   (seal)
                Eli Duvall                                         mark

At the foot of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit
Anne Arundle County sct   On this eighth day of January
one thousand eight hundred and twenty five personally
appears Jemima Duvall party to the above instrument
of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace
for the county aforesaid and acknowledges the same to be
her act and Deed for the purposes therein mentioned and
the negroes above named at the respective periods above
specified to be manumitted and discharged from all
manner of service to her or to any claiming under her
and to be free and manumitted according to the act
                                                                   (of)


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