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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 361   View pdf image
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hundred and fifty 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 called
Benjamin Smith being of the age of forty three years and
able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance
and him the said negro man named Benjamin Smith 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
hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this ninth
day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty six
Signed Sealed and delivered
    in the presence of                        Tho W Turner  (seal)
    S Gambrill   E H Marriott

At the foot of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit
Received on the day of the date above mentioned the sum of
one hundred and fifty dollars current money it being the
full consideration money above mentioned
                                                       Tho W Turner

Anne Arundel County to wit  On this ninth day of December
personally appears Thomas W Turner 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 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     Acknowledged before   S Gambrill
Ex.d d.d
Chd
3   Recorded the 15th day of January 1827


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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