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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 513   View pdf image
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by these presents do hereby release from slavery liberate
manumit and set free the said Samuel Hanson being
of the age of thirty eight years and capable by labour to
procure and gain a sufficient livelyhood and maintenance
and him the said Samuel Hanson 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 fourteenth
day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty two
Signed sealed and delivered        Charles Shorter         (seal)
in the presence of                           John Smith Jr         (seal)
Samuel S Hopkins                            Henry Matthews  (seal)
    M W Conner

On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
         State of Maryland Anne Arundel County to wit:
       On this fourteenth day of January Eighteen hundred
and thirty two personally appears Charles Shorter
John Smith Jur and Henry Matthews parties to the
foregoing instrument of writing before me the subscriber
a Justice of the peace of the seal of Maryland in and
for anne arundel Count and acknowledges the same to
be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned
and the said Samuel Hanson therein named to be
henceforth manumitted and discharged from all services
to them or any claiming under them to be free and
manumitted according to the act of assembly in such
cases made and provided
    Acknowledged before and certified by   R Welch of Ben
paid                                                   Justice of the Peace
4   Recorded the 14.th day of January 1832


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