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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 449   View pdf image
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    Anne Arundel County ss.  On this nineteenth day of
December in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty nine
came Eleanor Woodward before me the subscriber a Justice
of the peace for said County and acknowledged the above
manumission or Instrument of writing to be her act and deed
chd                                             Henry W Woodward  (Ss)
2½      Recorded the 8.th day of January 1830


    To all whom it may concern  Be it known that I Eleanor
Cowley of anne arundel County in the State of maryland
for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving
as also in further consideration of the sum of one dollar current
money to me in hand paid have released from slavery
liberated manumitted and set free and by these presents
do hereby release from slavery liberate manumit and set
free my negro girl named Mary being of the age of fifteen
years and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintainance and her the said Mary to serve my three
grand children for a term of years Mary Ellen Thomas Rezin
Shearbert and Samuel Shearbert and the increase of my
said negro girl Mary thats born during the term of her
servitude to be free males at the age of twenty one and
females at the age of Eighteen years to serve my said grand
children and further my said negro girl Mary to be free
and at her full liberty on the first day of January in the
year Eighteen hundred and thirty ^forty^ one and their increase
to their latest generations to be forever free to be henceforth free
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 this seventeenth day of Sep.t Eighteen
                                                                            (hundred)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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