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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 476   View pdf image
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above instrument of writing to be his act and deed for the
purposes therein mentioned
chd                                                      Gideon White
2¾   Recorded the 18.th day of February 1831


    To all whom it may concern be it known that I Thomas
T Simmons 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 Five Dollars current
money to me in hand paid have released from slavery
manumitted and set free and by these presents do hereby
release from slavery liberate manumit and set free on the
First day of January Eighteen hundred and thirty three my
negro man named Stephen being of the age of forty two years
and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintenance and him the said negro man named Stephen I do
declare from the time above mentioned to be free 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 affixed my seal this Eighth
day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight
hundred and thirty one
Signed sealed and delivered in the
presence of   Th G waters                  Thomas T Simmons   (seal)
                    A H Green

At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit:
       Received on the day of the date within mentioned the
sum of Five dollars current money it being the full consideration
money within Expressed
                                                          Thomas T Simmons

    Anne Arundel County to wit:  On this 8.th day of January
1831 personally appears Thomas T Simmons party to the within
instrument of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of
the peace of the State of Maryland for the county and
                                                                      acknowledges


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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