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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 348   View pdf image
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At the foot of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit
Anne Arundel County sc   On the 9th day of September
eighteen hundred and twenty six personally appeared
before the subscriber a Justice of the peace for said County
Frederick Wells and acknowledged the aforegoing Deed
of manumission to be his act and Deed according to the
true intent and meaning thereof and the act of assembly
in such cases made and provided
paid                                              James Hunter
2¼   Recorded the 9th day of September 1826


    Know all men by these presents that I Solomon Groves
of Anne Arundel County in the State of Maryland for divers
good causes and considerations me thereunto moving and
also in further consideration of ten dollars current money
to me in hand paid have released from slavery liberated
manumitted and set free and by these presents do release
from slavery liberate manumit and set free my negro
named Joshua Burgess being of the age of thirty two
years and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood
and maintenance to be free on the first day of January
in the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight and him
the said negro man named Joshua Burgess 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 hereto set my hand and affixed my seal this
Twenty fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty six
Signed Sealed and delivered
in the presence of us                     Solomon Groves   (seal)
Gideon White   Elisha White

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


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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