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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 525   View pdf image
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mentioned and the negro man within named to be
henceforth manumitted and discharged from all services
to her or to any claiming under her and to be free and
manumitted according to the act of assembly in such
case made and provided
chd                  Acknowledged before   Nathan Shipley
2¾   Recorded the 26.th day of March 1832


To all whom it may concern be it known that I William
Childs of Ann Arundel County state of Maryland for divers
good causes and considerations me 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 from
and after the several dates herein affixed to the negroes
hereinafter mentioned or named viz my negro woman
Nelly Smothers aged about twenty years to be free from
and after the first day of January one thousand eight
hundred and thirty six and her infant child
Margaret aged one year to be free from and after the
first day of January one thousand eight hundred
and fifty six together with all their increase the
males at twenty five years and the females at the age of
twenty one years and she the said Nelly Smothers able to
work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintainance
and they the said negroes named Nelly and Margaret I do
declare to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged
from all manner of servitude of service to me my executors
and administrators from and after the different dates
aforesaid affixed
                         In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal this fifteenth day of april
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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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