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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 51   View pdf image
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In Witness whereof I the said Sarah Norris have
hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day
of September in the year of Lord as above mentioned
Eighteen hundred and seventeen
Signed Sealed and delivered         Sarah Norris   (seal)
      in presence of
Thomas Sellman         Joseph Norris

    On the back of the aforegoing deed was thus written
to wit:  anne arundel County to wit:  on this 29th day of
September 1817 Came Sarah Norris before me the
subscriber a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid
and acknowledged the within instrument of writing
to be her act and deed agreeably to the true intent
and meaning thereof and the act of assembly in such
case made and provided
Ch.d         Acknowledged before      Thomas Sellman
2½   Recorded the 1st day of October 1817


    This Indenture Witnesseth that I Joseph R
Hopkins of the City of Philadelphia in the State of
Pennsylvania for divers good causes and considerations
me hereunto moving have released from slavery
manumitted and set free and by these presents do
release from slavery manumit and set free my
negro woman named Kate being of the age of twenty
three years of a healthy constitution sound in mind
and body and capable by labor to procure sufficient
food and raiment with other other requisites necessaries
of life  Provided that the said state shall continue
to serve me as heretofore and in all things demean
herself as a faithful and obedient servant to me
until the first day of October in the year of our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred & twenty three
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
& seal this first day of October in the year of our
                                                                   (Lord)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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