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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 364   View pdf image
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       To all whom it may concern be it known that I
Gassaway Winterson of Anne Arundel County in the State
of Maryland for divers good Causes and Considerations me
thereunto moving as also in further consideration of forty
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 woman named Maria
Dennis (now Freeland) being of the age of twenty three
years and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood
and maintenance and her the said negro woman named
Maria Dennis (now Freeland) 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 tenth day of January
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty seven
Signed Sealed and delivered
    in the presence of                  Gassaway Winterson  (seal)
       Joseph Norris
       John Phipps

At the foot of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit
Received on the day of the date above mentioned the
sum of forty dollars current money it being the full
consideration money above mentioned
                                  Gassaway Winterson   (seal)

Anne Arundel County to wit   On this 10th day of
January 1827 personally appears Gassaway
Winterson party to the within instrument of writing
before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the
                                                                (State)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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