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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 602   View pdf image
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County aforesaid personally appears Job Guest he being
known to me as a party to the within Instrument and
acknowledges the same to be his act and deed for the
purposes therein mentioned and the negroe boy therein
named to be from the time therein named manumitted
and discharged from all service 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
Exd            Acknowledged before   Wm Bryan J P
3½   Recorded the 16.th day of January 1840


    This Indenture Witnesseth that I Richard Ireland
Jones of the City of annapolis and State of maryland
for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred
and twenty five dollars to me in hand paid before the
ensealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof
is hereby acknowledged have released from slavery
manumitted and set free my mulatto man named
Ben Simpson being thirty Eight years of age of a
healthy Constitution sound in mind and body (with
the exception of some of his toes lost by frost bite some
years since) and Capable of labour to procure for him
sufficient food and raiment with other requisite
necessaries of life as far as I know at this time he
having absconded ^from me some years & remonstrated to me as being^ in Canada but I believe he is [illegible]
from Philadelphia & that the above sum of money
is furnished by his wife &^ some other friends thro' the
agency of Jeremiah Wright Esqr of the City.  In
Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my
name & affixed my seal this first day of February
Eighteen hundred and forty
Witness   Wm Higley                 R J Jones      (seal)
               Geo McNeir


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 602   View pdf image
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