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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 509   View pdf image
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Justice of the peace of the state of Maryland for the said
County and acknowledges the same to be his act and deed
for the purposses within mentioned and the negro
woman and her increase within named to be thenceforth
manumitted and discharged from all services to him or
any claiming under him and to be free and manumitted
according to the act of assembly in such cases made and
provided
ch.d                 Acknowledged before      Th G waters
4¼   Recorded the 5.th day of January 1832


    To all whom it may concern be it known that I John
Sellman of Ann 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 do manumit the
following named negroes to be free as hereinafter
expressed to wit my negro man named Henry to be
free on the first day of January Eighteen hundred and
thirty seven William to be free on the first day of
January Eighteen hundred and forty two Jack to be
free on the first day of January Eighteen hundred and
forty eight  Ned to be free on the first day of January
Eighteen hundred and fifty two my negro woman
named Delia to be free on the first day of January
Eighteen hundred and forty and all her increase born
after the execution of this deed to be free at the age of
thirty years my negro boy Louis to be free on the first
day of January Eighteen hundred and fifty five my
negro girl Letty to be free on the first day of January
Eighteen hundred and fifty seven and all her increase
to be free at the age of thirty years my negro boy Harry
to be free on the first day of January Eighteen hundred  
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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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