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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 457   View pdf image
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paid have released from slavery liberated manumitted
and set free and by these presents do manumit and set
free the said negro man by the name of Jacob Adams
after he the said Jacob shall have served the above term
of Eleven years which will be on the twenty third day
of December in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred
and thirty nine being able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintainance and him the said negro
man named Jacob Adams I do declare from the said
date to wit on the twenty third day of December of
the year Eighteen hundred and thirty nine free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of servitude or service
to me my executors administrators or assigns forever
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal this sixth day of April in the
year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty
Signed sealed and delivered
In the presence of
    Thomas T Simmons          Samuel Norman  (Seal)
       Rob.t B Belt

At the foot of the aforegoing was thus Endorsed to wit
    Received on the day of the above date the sum of five
dollars current money the sum above mentioned as a
consideration                         Samuel Norman  (seal)

    Anne Arundel County Sc.t  On the 6.th day of april
1830 personally appeared Samuel Norman party to the
above Instrument of writing before the subscriber a Justice
of the peace for said County and acknowledged the same
to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned
and the negro man therein named to be free from and
after the twenty third day of December Eighteen hundred
                                                                         and


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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