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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 493   View pdf image
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       Maryland Sct   Ann Arundel County ss
Be it remembered that on this         day of Twenty
ninth day of June 1831 personally appearears Sally
Ridgely party to the within manumission before me
the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the state of
Maryland for the County aforesaid and acknowledges
the same to be her act & deed for the purpose within
mentioned & the negro woman ^within^ named to be henceforth
manumitted & discharged from all service to her or
any claiming under her & to be free & manumitted
according to the act of assembly in such case made
& provided
chd       Acknowledged before  H G Grimes   (seal)
3¼   Recorded the 5.th day of October 1831


    Know all men by these presents that I Nicholas
Brewer Junior of Anne Arundel county in the State of
Maryland for divers good causes and considerations me
thereunto moving as also in further consideration of one
Dollar current money to me in hand paid have released
from slavery liberated manumitted and set free my
negro girl named Sophia being of the age of fifteen years
to be free from and after the term of fifteen years from
this date and her issue born during the said period
to be free at the age of thirty years and her the said
negro girl named Sophia after the said term of fifteen
years and her issue at the age of thirty years I do declare
to be free manumitted and discharged from all manner
of servitude or service to me my executors or administrators
forever  In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and
affixed my seal this Eighteenth day of October Eighteen
hundred and thirty one
Signed sealed and delivered in the      Nichs Brewer Jr   (seal)
presence of   William McNeir
                     Ezekiel Hughes
                                                                      On



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