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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 59   View pdf image
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of maryland for the said County and acknowledges
the same to be his act and deed for the purposes
within mentioned and the negro boy within named
to be henceforth manumitted and discharged from all
services to him or to any claiming under him and to
be free and manumitted according to the act of
assembly in such cases made and provided
chd     Acknowledged before  Samuel Brown Jun.r
3   Recorded the 20th day of January 1818


    To all whom it may concern   Be it known that
I George Wells of the City of annapolis and State of
Maryland for divers good causes and considerations
me thereunto moving as also in further consideration
of five shillings current money to me in hand paid
will release from slavery my negro Girl named
mary being about the age of nine years to be free
on the first day of march Eighteen hundred and
forty and the issue of her body males to be free at
the age of twenty five years and females to be
free at the age of twenty one years I do declare the
said negro Girl named mary to be free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of servitude or
service to me my heirs Executors or administrators
for ever after the expiration of the time above
mentioned.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal this twentieth
day of January in the year of our Lord one
thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen
Signed Sealed and delivered in
the presence of The words "twenty   George Wells  (seal)
one" being first interlined
       Benja Pindle,      Rinaldo Pindell

on the back of the aforegoing deed was thus written to wit
                                                                      (anne)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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