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583 according to the act of assembly in such cases made and provided chd Acknowledged before S Gambrill 3½ Recorded the 19 day of October 1837 To all whom it doth or may Concern Be it known that I Editha Williams of the City of annapolis in the County of Anne arundel and State of maryland for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving do hereby release from slavery liberate manumit and set free from and after the periods herein after mentioned the following negroes slaves belonging to me and now in my possession named George Brown Bill Brown Maria Brown and Ann Bailey or by whatsoever name or names they or either or any of them may be known or called the said slaves being at this time of the following ages to wit George Brown ten years old to be free from and after the fifteenth day of November Eighteen hundred and sixty two Bill Brown three years old to be free from and after the fifteenth day of November Eighteen hundred and sixty nine Maria Brown aged sixteen months to be free from and after the fifteenth day of July Eighteen hundred and sixty six and all the issue and increase of the said Maria Brown to be free from and after the fifteenth day of July Eighteen hundred and sixty six and Ann Bailey five years old to be free from and after the fifteenth day of November Eighteen hundred and sixty two and all the issue and increase of the said Ann Bailey to be free from and after the fifteenth day of November Eighteen hundred and sixty two all of the aforesaid negroes with their future issue and increase I do declare to be thenceforth that is to say from and after the respective periods herein before mentioned freed manu |
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