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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 32   View pdf image
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march Eighteen hundred and seventeen personally
appears Stephen Boone party to the within mentioned
instrument of writing before me the subscriber a
Justice of the peace of 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 woman within named to be henceforth
manumitted and discharged from all services to
him or any claiming under him and to be free
and manumitted according to the act of assembly
in such cases made and provided
paid         Acknowledged before  
Ex.d d.d                                       James Hunter
3¼   Recorded the 22d day of march 1817


       Know all men by these presents that I William
Mathews of ann arundel County and State of
maryland do hereby manumit and grant freedom
to the following negroes at the several periods of
time hereinafter stated and mentioned that is to say
I manumit and grant freedom to my negroe woman
Kate from and after the day of the date hereof
I manumit & grant freedom to my Girl Darky or
Dorcas from and after the first of may Eighteen
hundred and twenty one I manumit and grant
freedom to my boy John or Jonathan from and
after the first of may Eighteen hundred and twenty
seven and I manumit and grant freedom to my
Girl mille or Amelia from and after the first of
may Eighteen hundred and twenty Eight and
with regard to the issue that may be born of the
females above named before the time fixed for the
emancipation of the said females I grant and give
to the said Issue their freedom in the manner following
to the boys as they arrive to the age of twenty one
years and to the Girls as they arrive to the age of
                                                       (Eighteen)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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