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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 467   View pdf image
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released from slavery liberated manumitted and set free
and by these presents do liberate manumit my negro woman
named Maria being of the age of twenty six years and able
to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance
and her the said negro Maria I do declare to be free
on the first day of July in the year Eighteen hundred
and forty manumitted and discharged from all manner
of servitude or service to me my Executors or administrators
forever   I do also declare her issue if she shall have
any after the day of the date hereof to be free the
males to be free at the age of twenty one the females at
age of eighteen years old.  I also do hereby liberate
manumit and set free my negro girl named Charlotte
now two old years old and when the negro girl named
Charlotte shall arrive to the age of Eighteen years
old I do declare her liberated manumitted and
discharged from all manner of servitude or service to
me my Executors or administrators forever  In testimony
whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 27.th
day of July 1830
Witness Nathan Shipley      Zachariah Roberts  (seal)
             W B Slack

On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit:
          Anne Arundel County to wit:  On this twenty
seventh day of July 1830 personally appears Zachariah
Roberts 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 negroes within named to
be henceforth manumitted and set free according to
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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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