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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 311   View pdf image
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                                     311.

or any claiming under her and to be free and manumitted
according to the act of assembly in such case made and
provided          Acknowledged before Richard H Merriken
paid                                       J. P. A. A. County
3½   Recorded the 18th day of April 1825


To all whom it may concern be it known that I
Joshua Black of ann arundel county in the State of
Maryland for divers good cuses and considerations me
thereunto moving as also in further consideration of
seventy two dollars and fifty cents current money to
me in hand paid have released from slavery liberated
manumitted and set free and by these presents do
hereby release from slavery liberate manumit and
set free my negro woman named Ann Tommas being
of the age of twenty seven also her child Rachel of the
age of six years and able to work and gain a suficient
livelihood and maintenance and hir the said negro
woman and child named Ann Tommas and Rachel
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 sixteenth day of April in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty five
signed sealed and delivered
    in the presence of                     Joshua Black  (seal)
    Tho.s Burgess
    Thos Treakle

On the back of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit
Received on the day of the date within mentioned
the sum of seventy two dollars and fifty cents
                                                          (current)



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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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