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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 502   View pdf image
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presents do hereby release from slavery liberate
manumit and set free my negro woman named Sarah
wright being of the age of twenty seven years and able to
work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance
and her the said negro woman named Sarah wright
I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted and
discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me
my Executors or Administrators forever I hereby also release
from slavery liberate manumit and set free my negroes
John and William the children of the aforesaid Sarah
Wright that is to say John aged six years on the 28.th day
of February Eighteen hundred and thirty one and William
aged one year on the 27.th day of December Eighteen hundred
and thirty one both to be free and Exonerated from all
manner of servitude when they shall respectively attain
the age of twenty one years.  In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 18.th
day of November in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred
and thirty one                                           his
Signed Sealed and delivered             Perry + Wright   (seal)
in the presence of us                                mark
Th G Waters  William Jones

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 mentioned          his
witness                                                Perry + Wright  (seal)
       Th G Waters                                       mark

       Anne Arundel County Sct  Be it remembered
that on this 18.th day of November 1831 personally appears
Perry Wright party to the within instrument of writing
before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the
State of Maryland for the said county and acknowledges
                                                                               the


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