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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 44   View pdf image
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                                  44.

thousand Eight hundred and seventeen
    Signed Sealed and delivered in
the presence of James Hunter      Joseph Phelps  (seal)
          Christopher Hohne

    on the back of the aforegoing deed was thus written
to wit:   Anne Arundel County sc.  Be it remembered
that on this sixth day of august 1817 personally
appears Joseph Phelps party to the within
instrument of writing before me the subscriber a
Justice of the peace of the 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 manumitted
and discharged from all services to him or to any
person claiming under him and to be free and
manumitted according to the act of assembly in such
cases made and provided
Ch.d            Acknowledged before   James Hunter
3¼   Recorded the 6th day of august 1817


       Know all men by these presents that I Samuel
C Watkins of Anne Arundel County in the State of
Maryland have manumitted and set free from
slavery and by these presents do manumit set
free and discharge from slavery two negro
Children the one named Sarah aged five years
the other named Isaac aged three years and I the
said Samuel C Watkins do hereby declare the said
Sarah and Isaac to be free from slavery from
the date of these presents  In Witness whereof I
the said Samuel C Watkins have hereto set my
hand and affixed my seal this 21st day of
august Eighteen hundred and seventeen
                                                             (signed)


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