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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 36   View pdf image
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have liberated manumitted and set free and by
these presents do release from Slavery liberate
manumit and set free the said negro man named
Robert Hall from and after the fourteenth day of
December in the year of our Lord one thousand
Eight hundred and seventeen I do declare the said
negro man named Robert Hall to be free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of servitude or
service to me my heirs Executors or administrators
for ever after the expiration of the time above mentioned
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal this fourteenth day of June
in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight
hundred and seventeen
Signed Sealed & delivered
in the presence of us               Leo.d Scott  (seal)
Frederick Harwood
    John W Clagett

On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
       State of Maryland anne arundel County sc
             Be it remembered That on this fourteenth
day of June 1817 Personally appears Leonard Scott
party to the within 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 said negro
man within named to be henceforth manumitted
and discharged from all services to him or to any
claiming under him and to be free and manumitted
according to the act of assembly in such cases made
and provided
                                                          (Acknow)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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