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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 532   View pdf image
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                                  532

To all whom it may concern be it known that I
Eleanor Baldwin of Anne Arundel County in the
State of Maryland for divers good causes and
considerations me thereunto moving do at my death
release from slavery liberate manumit and
set free my negro man Dick being about forty four
years of age and able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance and him the said negro
man named Dick I do at my death declare free
manumitted and discharged from all manner
of servitude to my heirs executors or administrators
for Ever.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty
ninth day of May one thousand Eight hundred and
thirty two                                             her
Signed sealed and delivered      Eleanor + Baldwin  (seal)
in presence of
S Gambrill   Wm H Baldwin

On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit:
       Anne Arundel County to wit:  On this 29.th may 1832
personally appears Eleanor Baldwin party to the
within Instrument of writing before me the subscriber
a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland for
the said county and acknowledges the within to be
her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned
and the negro man within named to be at her
death manumitted and discharged from all
services to any claiming under her and to be
free and manumitted at her death according to
the act of assembly in such cases made and provided
                   Acknowledged before         S Gambrill
2½   Recorded the 29.th day of May 1832


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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