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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 313   View pdf image
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thousand eight hundred and twenty five
signed sealed and delivered
in the presence of us                  James Pryor   (seal)
Nathan Shipley
Test   Jacob Strecker

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 dollar current money it being the full consideration
money above mentioned                     James Pryor
Witness   Nathan Shipley

Anne Arundel county ss   Be it remembered that on this
twenty sixth day of January eighteen hundred and twenty five
personally appears James Pryor party to the within
Instrument of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of
the peace for the state of Maryland for the said County and
acknowledges the same to be his act and Deed for the
purposes within mentioned and the negro man within
named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged
from all services to him or to any claiming under him
and to be free and manumitted according to the act of
assembly in such cases made and provided
N.B.  the words eighteen hundred & twenty five in the
third line of the acknowledgment was interlined before
the acknowledgment was taken
Chd            Acknowledged before   Nathan Shipley
3½   Recorded the 18th day of April 1825


Know all men by these presents that I Mary Wilson
of Anne Arundel County in the State of Maryland believing
that natural freedom is the right of all men given by
almighty God do bind myself my heirs executors
administrators and assigns to liberate and set free the
following negroes to wit negro David born September
                                                                         (the)


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