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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 353   View pdf image
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                                          353

       To all whom it may concern be it known that I
James Allison of the City of Annapolis in Anne Arundel
County and state of Maryland for divers good causes and
considerations me thereunto moving have released from
slavery liberated manumitted and set free and by these
presents do release from slavery liberate manumit and
set free my negro woman named Betty aged about twenty
six years and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood
and maintenance to be free from the date hereof.  And her
the said negro woman named Betty I do declare to be
henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all
manner of servitude or service to me my executors
administrators or assigns forever.   In testimony whereof I
hereto set my name and affix my seal this twenty eighth
day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty six
Signed Sealed and delivered               James Allison   (seal)
in the presence of
James Shaw   R I Cowman

At the foot of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit
Anne Arundel county to wit   Be it remembered that on
this 28th day of October in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty six personally
appears James Allison before me the subscriber a Justice
of the peace in and for the county aforesaid and
acknowledges the aforegoing deed of manumission to
be his act and deed and the negro woman therein
mentioned to be free according to the true intent and
meaning thereof and the act of assembly in such case
made and provided
(paid)            Acknowledged before         R I. Cowman
2¼   Recorded the 28th of October 1826


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