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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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freedom at the periods respectively appointed for the same
and according to the acts of assembly in such case made and
provided            Acknowledged before         Jos G Harrison
chd
3½   Recorded the 9.th day of February 1831


    Know all men by these presents that I Philip Clayton
of the City of Annapolis Ann Arundel County State of
Maryland for divers good causes and considerations me
thereunto moving as for the further consideration of Five
Dollars 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 manumit and
set free from slavery my negro woman Polly Blake being
of the age of Thirty seven years being able to work and gain
a sufficient livelihood and maintenance on the following
terms and conditions the said Polly Blake to be free in six
years from the date hereof which will be on the Eighteenth
day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty seven and her
increase to be free at the age of twenty five years and she
the said Polly Blake I do declare to be free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of service or servitude to me
my Executors and administrators forever from and after the
Eighteenth day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty
seven  In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal
this Eighteenth day of February Eighteen hundred and
thirty one
Sign'd seal'd and delivered in
presence of   Samuel Ridout         Philip Clayton   (seal)
                     Gideon White

At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
       Ann Arundel County ss   On the 18.th day of February
1831 appeared Philip Clayton before the subscriber a
Justice of the peace for said county and acknowledged the
                                                                               above


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