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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 607   View pdf image
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henceforth free manumitted and discharged from
slavery and all manner of servitude or service to me
my executors or administrators for ever and I do hereby
in like manner release from slavery liberate manumit
and set free my negro boy John Blackstone to be free
from and after the first day of august 1861 when
he will be twenty five years of age and I do hereby
in like manner release from slavery liberate manumit
and set free my negro boy Charles Blackstone to be free
from and after the first day of april 1863 when he
will be twenty five years of age and them the said
negroes John Blackstone and Charles Blackstone do
declare to be thenceforth viz from the 1.st day of august
one thousand eight hundred and sixty one and from
the first day of april one thousand eight hundred
and sixty three respectively as aforesaid free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of servitude or
service to me my executors or administrators forever
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal this twenty third day of april
in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred
and forty                           Jn.o Ridout   (seal)
    Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of The
words aged fifty aged twenty Eight aged forty four
in the 14.th 16.th and 18.th lines first page being first interlined
                                  Sams Ridout   Eliz Owings

    At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
             Anne Arundel County sct
                   On this 23rd day of april 1840 personally
appears John Ridout party to the above instrument
of writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the
peace of This State of maryland for said County and
acknowledges the same to be his act and deed
for the purposes therein mentioned and the negroes
therein named to be manumitted and discharged
                                                                (from)


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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