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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 446   View pdf image
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presents do hereby release from slavery liberate and
manumit and set free my negro woman named Betts
being of the age of thirty two years and able to work and
gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance and also
my negro named Rachel when she shall arrive at the
full age of thirty years which will be fully complete and
ended on the first day of November Eighteen hundred
and thirty one and the said negro woman named Betts
I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted and
discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me
my executors or administrators forever and also the said
negro woman Rachel I do declare to be henceforth free
on the first day of November aforesaid 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 the First day of September in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
Signed Sealed and delivered in
presence of      Nathan Shipley     Thomas Cook    (seal)
                   William B Slack

On the back of the aforegoing was thus endorsed to wit:
       Anne Arundel County to wit:   On this first day of
September 1829 personally appears Thomas Cook
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
henceforth manumitted and discharged from all
services to him or to any claiming under him and to
                                                                      be


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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