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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 479   View pdf image
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from slavery liberate manumit and set free and by these
presents do hereby release from slavery liberate manumit
and set free my negro woman Polly being Twenty four and
an half years at the present time and able to work and
gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance and also the
two children of said negro Polly one named Hessy aged
six years to be free upon the first day of January one thousand
Eight hundred and fifty one also negro charles his younger
son aged three years to be free the first day of January
one thousand Eight hundred and fifty Eight the aforesaid
Polly mother of the above two children to be free as
aforesaid on the first day of January one thousand Eight
hundred and thirty two and them the said negroes I
do declare to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged
at the several periods therein mentioned viz Polly from the
first day of January Eighteen hundred and thirty two and
the two children at the different dates affixed to their
mames to be 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   day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand
Eight hundred and thirty one
Signed sealed and delivered in
the presence of Lewis Sutton s.r      Samuel Wood   (seal)
                        Wm H Wood

On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit:
          State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Ss
    On this     day of March 1831 personally appears Samuel
Wood S.r party to the within instrument of writing or deed
before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the state
of Maryland for the County aforesaid and acknowledges the
same to be his act and deed for the purposes within
mentioned and the negroes therein named to be thenceforth
                                                                   manumitted


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