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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 448   View pdf image
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deed for the purposes therein mentioned and the negro
woman therein named to be henceforth manumitted and
discharged from all service to her or to any claiming under
her and to be free and manumitted according to the act
of assembly in such cases made and provided
                Acknowledged before               Gideon White
3      Recorded the 24.th day of December 1829


To all to whom these presents shall come Know ye
that I Eleanor Woodward of anne arundel county in
the state of Maryland divers good causes me thereunto
moving have and by these presents do manumit
liberate set free and discharge from slavery my negro
woman named Hannah aged about fifteen years to be
free from and after the first day of November which
will be in the year Eighteen hundred and forty four
and the issue of the said Hannah if any be born during
the term of servitude shall be and hereby are declared free
as they shall severally and respectively arrive at the age
of thirty years hereby declaring the said negro Hannah
manumitted and discharged from slavery from and after
the said first day of November in the year Eighteen
hundred and forty four and her issue if any to be free as
aforesaid from me and from all person or persons claiming
under me.  In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and
seal this nineteenth day of December in the year Eighteen
hundred and twenty nine
Signed Sealed and delivered in
presence of   Hy W Woodward     Eleanor Woodward  (seal)
                   Bushrod W Marriott

    At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
                                                                        (Anne)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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