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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 524   View pdf image
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                                     524

assembly in such cases made and provided
Ex.d d.d            acknowledged before      Lewis Sutton s.r
chd
4   Recorded the 15.th day of March 1832


To all whom it may concern be it known that I Ruth
Mercer of Anne Arundel County in the state of
Maryland for divers good causes and considerations
me thereunto moving as also in further consideration of
the sum of Sixty 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 my negro
man named Charles being of the age of thirty six years
and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintenance and him the said negro man named
Charles I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of servitude or service
to me my heirs executors or administrators forever
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal this nineteenth day of March
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty two
Signed sealed and delivered      Ruth Mercer   (seal)
in the presence of
witness  Richard Mercer of Andrew
             Nathan Shipley

On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit:
    Anne Arundel County to wit  On this 19.th day of
March 1832 personally appears Ruth Mercer party
to the within instrument of writing before me the
subscriber a Justice of the peace of the state of
Maryland for the county aforesaid and acknowledges
to be her act and deed for the purposes within
                                                                mentioned


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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