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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 605   View pdf image
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two Children Daniel and mary Elizabeth we do
declare to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged
from all manner of servitude or service to us our
Executors or administrators for ever  In Testimony
whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals
this twenty first day of april in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and forty
Signed Sealed and delivered      Jn.o Mercer    (seal)
       in the presence of
Wm Glover   N H Green           John Collinson   (seal)

       At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
    State of maryland Anne Arundel County to wit  On
this twenty first day of april in the year Eighteen hundred
and forty personally appears John Mercer and John
Collinson they being personally known to me to be parties
to the within instrument of writing before me the
subscribers or Justices of the peace of the State of maryland
for the county aforesaid and acknowledges the same
to be their act and deed for the purposes within
mentioned and the negroes as therein mentioned to be
henceforth manumitted and discharged from all
services to us or to any claiming under us and to be
free and manumitted according to the act of assembly
in such cases made and provided
Exd      Acknowledged before      Wm Glover
3¼   Recorded the 21.st day of april 1840


       To all whom these presents shall come Greeting
Be it known That I Abner Linthicum of Anne
Arundel County and State of maryland for the
consideration of two hundred dollars in hand
paid and for divers good causes and Considerations
me thereunto moving have and by these presents
do manumit set free and Liberate from slavery a
Negro woman called Eliza Queen and her child
                                                          (Joseph)



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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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