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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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anne arundel county in the state of Maryland
divers good causes me thereto moving have and
by these presents do manumit liberate set free
and discharge from slavery my negro woman
Aleatha aged about nineteen years to be free from
and after the first day of October which will be
in the year Eighteen hundred and forty three
and the issue of the said Aleatha if any be
born during her time of servitude shall be and
herby ar declared free as they shall severly and
respectively arrive at the age of thirty years herby
declaring the said negro Aleatha manumitted
and discharged from slavery from and after the
said first day of October in the year Eighteen
hundred and forty three and her issue if any
to be free as aforesaid from me and from all
person or person's claring under me
    In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand
and seal this the 29.th day of May in the year
Eighteen hundred and thirty two
Sign'd seal'd and delivered      Eleanor Woodward  (seal)
In the presence of
Caleb white
    Rignal D Woodward

On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
       Anne Arundel County to wit:  On this 29.th day of
May 1832 came Eleanor woodward before me
the subscriber a Justice of the peace and
acknowledges the within to be his her act and deed
chd                                                Caleb white
2½   Recorded the 31.st day of May 1832


To all to whom these presents shall come Know
ye that I Eleanor Woodward of anne arundel


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