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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 375   View pdf image
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divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving
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 named Jack
aged about twenty eight years and able to work and gain a
sufficient livelihood and maintenance to be free from the
date hereof and him the said negro man named Jack 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 eighteenth day
of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty seven
Signed Sealed and delivered               Harry Owens   (Seal)
in the presence of
R I. Cowman   Henry Williams

At the foot of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit
Anne Arundel County to wit   Be it remembered that on
this eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty seven personally
appears Henry Owens 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 man therein named 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
3½   Recorded the 18th day of April 1827


To all whom it may concern be it known that I
Richard Gardiner of Anne Arundel County in the State
                                                                         (of)


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