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310. release from slavery liberate manumitt and set free the following negroes to wit my negro woman Jane to be free on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty Together with all her increase as they shall respectively arrive at the age after mentioned to wit the males to be free when they share arrive at the full age of thirty five years and the females to be free when they shall arrive at the full age of thirty years. Also my negro boy Edward to be free on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven and these the said negroes above named I do declare when they respectively arrive at the ages or time specified to be free manumitted and discharged 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 this fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty five signed sealed and delivered in presence of May Ann Mackubin (seal) Richard H Merriken Margaret Merriken On the back of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit Anne Arundel county to wit On the fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty five personally appears Mary Ann Mackubin party to the within instrument of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland for the county aforesaid and acknowledges the same to be her act and Deed for the purposes therein mentioned and the negroes therein named to be free when they shall respectively arrive at the times and ages therein specified to be manumitted and discharged from all services to her (or) |
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