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376 of Maryland for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving have released from slavery liberate manumit and set free my negro woman Hannah being able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance and she the said negro woman named Hannah 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 26th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of Rich.d Gardiner (Seal) Henry Hammond Rezin Spurrier At the foot of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit ANne Arundel County to wit On this 26th day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty six personally appears Richard Gardiner party to the above instrument of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland for the said County and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned and the negro woman therein 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 Case made and provided Chd Acknowledged before Henry Hammond 2½ Recorded the 7th day of May 1827 To all whom it may concern be it known that I Christopher Williams of Anne Arundel County and State of (Maryland) |
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