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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 432   View pdf image
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Shaw and James Murray against a certain responsibility
in said deed mentioned.  And whereas the said Henry S
Holland James Shaw and James Murray have agreed to
sell the said negro to Henry Maynadier Esquire of the
City of Annapolis until they respectively arrive at the
age of thirty five years the said Paul being now of
the age of twenty two years and the said Aaron of the
age of twenty four years for the sum of five hundred
dollars and that the said negroes shall be free and
manumitted after the said term  Now therefore this deed
Witnesseth to all whom it may concern that we James
Shaw James Murray and Henry S Holland for divers
good causes and considerations us thereto moving as also
in further consideration of the sum of five dollars current
money to us in hand paid have released from slavery
liberated manumitted and set free the said negro man
named Aaron from and after the seventeenth day of
May Eighteen hundred and forty and the said negro
man named Paul from and after the seventh day of June
Eighteen hundred and forty two being now respectively
of the ages of twenty four and twenty two years and
able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintenance and them the said Aaron and Paul we
do declare after the period above named to be free
manumitted and discharged from all manner of service
or servitude to us or either of us or either of our heirs
executors and administrators forever  In testimony whereof
we have hereunto set our hands and seals this fourteenth
day of July Eighteen hundred and twenty nine
Signed sealed & delivered in        H S Holland   (seal)
presence of James Hunter            James Shaw   (seal)
                                                      J Murray      (seal)
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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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