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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 377   View pdf image
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Maryland for 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 the following
named negroes which I purchased of a certain Thomas Francis
to wit one negro woman named Meally and her four children
named Matilda Horris Christopher and Alexander they
being able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintenance and them the said negroes Meally Matilda
Horris Christopher and Alexander I do declare to be
henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all manner
of servitude or service to me my executors and administrators
forever   In Testimony whereof I hereto set my name and affix
my seal this seventh day of June in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
Signed Sealed and delivered
    in the presence                         Christopher Williams   (Seal)
    N H Green   R I. Cowman

At the foot of the aforegoing Deed was thus written to wit
Anne Arundel County to wit   Be it remembered that
on this seventh day of June in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty seven personally
appears Christopher Williams before me the subscriber a
Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for
the county aforesaid and acknowledges the within Deed or
instrument of writing to be his act and deed and the
negroes therein named to be henceforth free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of servitude or service to
him or to any claiming under him according to the
true intent and meaning thereof and agreeably
to the acts of assembly in such cases made and
                                                       (provided)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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