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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 505   View pdf image
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of December 1831 before the subscriber a Justice of the
peace for said Cty appears Perry G Mercer Executor of
Zachariah Roberts deceased and Mary Roberts widow
of said decd and acknowledged the above to be their act
and deed according to the true intent and meaning
thereof and the acts of assembly in such cases made
and provided
chd                  Acknowledged before      Nathan Shipley
2¾   Recorded the 21.st day of December 1831


To all whom it may concern be it known that we Richard
M Chase and Robert Welch of Ben of the City of Annapolis
in Anne Arundel County and state of Maryland for divers
good causes and considerations us thereunto moving as also in
further consideration of five dollars current money to me in
hand paid have released from slavery liberated manumitted
and set free and by these presents do hereby release from
slavery liberate manumit and set free our negro man
named Dennis Digges being of the age of forty years or
thereabouts and able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance and him the said negro man
named Dennis Digges aforesaid we do declare to be
henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all
manner of servitude or service to us our executors or administrators
forever  In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands
and affixed our seals this twenty fourth day of December
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty one
Signed sealed and delivered          R.d M Chase      (seal)
in the presence of us                     R Welch of Ben   (seal)
Th Franklin   James Cleary

At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
    Received on this 24.th day of Decem.r 1831 the sum
                                                                              of


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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