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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 342   View pdf image
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                                           342

Annexed to the aforegoing was the following Deed
of manumission to wit
Know all men by these presents that I Robert
Welch of Ben of the City of Annapolis in the State of
Maryland in pursuance and in execution of the authority
and Trusts vested and reposed in me by the annexed
power of attorney from Nicholas Darnall and Henry
Darnall of the City and County of Philadelphia in the
State of Pennsylvania and for divers good Causes and
Considerations me thereto moving have liberated
manumitted and released from slavery and by these
presents do liberate manumit and release from slavery
from and after the fourth day of May in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty the
following negro slaves now in the service and possession
of Claudius F Legrand of anne arundel County in
the State of Maryland to wit Sam Jerry Suck Hess
Jem Bill Bob Ned Sam Wallace another of the name
of Bill John and Charles the said negroes together
with the issue of Suck and Hess to be wholly free
manumitted and discharged from slavery and from
all manner of claim by me and my heirs or of the
said Nicholas and Henry Darnall or their heirs or
the Heirs of either of them from and after the said fourth
day of May eighteen hundred and thirty.   In testimony
whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal at the
City of Annapolis aforesaid this eighteenth day of July
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty six
Witness  Tho.s H Hall         R Welch of Ben  (seal)
              R I. Cowman

On the back of the aforegoing Deed of manumission
was thus written to wit
                                                                   (State)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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