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57 negro woman named Sary being of the age of twenty five years on the 24th of December last when she arrives to the age of thirty five years and her female child named Henny to be free when she arrives to the age of thirty five years and in case the said negro woman Sary she will have any more increase said increase male or female to be free when they shall arrive at the age of thirty five years and which said negroes Sary and Henny I have this day sold to George Watts as well more fully appear by a bill of sale executed to him on this day and her the said Sary and her increase I do declare to be free manumitted and discharged from all manner of servitude or service to me my Executors or administrators or any one claiming under me for ever from and after their and each of their time of service aforesaid mentioned and intended by me In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this fourteenth day of January 1818 Signed Sealed & delivered in the presence of Stephen Boone (seal) James Hunter Philip K Watts On the back of the aforegoing deed was thus written to wit: Anne Arundel County to wit: On this 14th of January 1818 personally appeared Stephen Boone party to the within instrument of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the aforesaid County and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed for the purposes within mentioned and the negroes within named to be manumitted according to the true intent and meaning thereof and the act of assembly in such cases made and provided Acknowledged before Ex.d d.d James Hunter paid 3¼ Recorded the 14 day of January 1818 |
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