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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 365   View pdf image
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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 woman 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
paid            Acknowledged before         Joseph Norris
3¼   Recorded the 14th day of February 1827


Know all men by these presents that I Margaret
Mercer of anne arundel county in the state of Maryland
for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto
moving have manumitted liberated set free & discharged
from slavery & do hereby manumit liberate set free &
discharge from slavery my negro woman Nelly now
aged about twenty five years.  The said manumission
to take effect when the said Nelly shall arrive at the
age of thirty five years which period for greater certainty
I now fix & declare to be the twenty fifth day of January
Anno Domini eighteen hundred and & thirty seven at which
time the said Nelly is to be free from all claim of myself
my executors administrators and assigns.   And whereas
the said Nelly is intermarried with a certain James
Sparrow and it is my wish & intention that any children
which may be born of the said Nelly shall be free on
certain conditions I do hereby manumit liberate set
free & discharge from slavery any and every child
that may be born of the said Nelly prior to the said
twenty fifth day of January Anno Domini eighteen
hundred and thirty seven provided the same James
                                                    (Sparrow)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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