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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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and seventeen
Signed Sealed and delivered      William P Hardesty  (seal)
in presence of      Thomas
Whittington          Tho.s Owens

       On the back of the aforegoing deed was thus written
to wit:   anne arundel county to wit:   On this sixteenth
day of September 1817 personally appears William P
Hardesty party to the within Instrument of writing before
me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the County
aforesaid and acknowledged the same to be his act
and deed for the purposes within mentioned and the
negroes within named to be henceforth manumitted
and discharged from all services to him or to any
claiming under him and to be free and manumitted
according to the act of assembly in such cases made
and provided      Acknowledged before
Chd                                       John H D Lane
3¼   Recorded the 16.th day of September 1817


       I Sarah Norris of the County of anne arundel
in the State of Maryland do hereby set free from
bondage my negro woman named Rachel Dennis
aged thirty four years and do also set free from
bondage her child named Leonard aged four
months and twenty five days on this day the
twenty ninth of September in the year of our Lord
one thousand Eight hundred and seventeen and
do for myself my Executors and administrators
release unto the said Rachel and Leonard all
my right and all claim whatsoever to their
person or to mt Estate they may require hereby
declaring the said Rachel and Leonard are absolutely
free without any interruption from me or any
person or persons whatsoever claiming under me
                                                                (In)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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