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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 535   View pdf image
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County in the state of Maryland   divers good causes
me thereto moveing have and by these presents do
manumate liberate set free and discharge from slavery
my negro woman named Hester aged about nineteen
years to be free from and after the first day of September
which will be in the year Eighteen hundred and forty
three and the issue of the said Hester if any be born
during her 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 Hester manamitted and discharged from
slavery from and after the the said first day of
September in the year Eighteen hundred and forty
three and her issue if any to free as aforesaid from
me and from all person or persons claring under me
    In testimony whereof I her to set my hand and seal
this the 29.th day of May in the year Eighteen hundred
and thirty two
Signed sealed and delivered     Eleanor Woodward  (seal)
In the presence of
Caleb white
    Rignal J woodward

On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit:
       Anne Arundel County               On this the
twenty ninth day of May in the year Eighteen hundred
and thirty two came Eleanor Woodward before me
the subscriber a Justice of the peace for said county
and acknowledged the within manumission or
Instrument of writing to be her act and deed
chd                                          Caleb white
2½   Recorded the 31.st day of May 1832


To all whom it may concern be it known that I
Ephraim warfield sen.r of Anne Arundel County in
                                                                      the


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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