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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 332   View pdf image
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At the foot of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit
Received on the day of the date of the above mentioned the
sum of fifty Doll.s Current money it being in full consideration
money within mentioned
                                                    Elizabeth Hood   (seal)

Anne Arundel County to wit  On this sixth day of April
1826 personally appears Elizabeth Hood party to the
above 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 her act and
deed for the purposes above mentioned and the negro man
above named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged
from all services to her or to any claiming under her and
to be free and manumitted according to the act of
assembly in such Cases made and provided
paid         Acknowledged before         Caleb White
3   Recorded the 7th day of April 1826


To all whom it may concern be it known that I Philemon
D Ridgely of anne arundel county in the State of Maryland
for divers good cause & considerations me thereunto moving as
also in further consideration of forty five dollars 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 man named Nathaniel Nelson being
of the age of forty two years & able to work & gain a
sufficient livelihood and maintenance and him the
said negrow man named Nathaniel Nelson I do declare
to be henceforth free manumitted & discharged from all
manner of Servitude or service to me my executors or
administrators forever   In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand and affixed my seal this twentieth
                                                             (day)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 332   View pdf image
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