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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 604   View pdf image
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Anne Arundel County sc   On this fourth day of November
Eighteen hundred and thirty nine before me the subscriber a
Justice of the peace of the State of maryland and for the
County aforesaid personally appears Patrick Henry
OReilly whose name is signed and his seal affixed to the
foregoing Instrument of writing as party to the same and
therein professing to be party and acknowledged the said
Instrument of writing as his act and deed for the purposes
therein mentioned and expressed and the negro  man
therein named called Nace and Commonly known by the
name of Nace Burgess to be henceforth manumitted and
absolutely liberated and discharged from slavery and
all servitude or service to him his Executors administrators
as to my and every person claiming under him and to be
henceforth and forever free emancipated and manumitted
according to the act of assembly in such case made and
provided      Acknowledged before
Exd                                             Lewis Sutton Sr
paid
3½   Recorded the 24th day of February 1840


       To all whom it may concern  Be it known
That we John Mercer and John Collinson of Anne
Arundel County in the State of maryland for divers
good causes and Considerations as thereunto moving
have released from Slavery liberated manumitted
and set free and by these presents do hereby release
from slavery liberate manumit and set free one
Negro woman named Harriet Sparrow being of the
age of Thirty three years and her two Children
Daniel and mary Elizabeth and her the said
Harriet being able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance and her the said
Negro woman named Harriet Sparrow and her
                                                             two


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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