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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 608   View pdf image
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from all services to him or any claiming under him as
therein set forth and to be free and manumitted according
to the act of assembly in such cases made and provided
Exd              Acknowledged before      J D Weems J P
6   Recorded the 23rd day of April 1840


       To all whom it may concern  Be it known That
I Job Guest of anne arundel county in the State of
maryland for divers good causes and Considerations
me 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 my
negroe woman named Sarah Sye she being of the
age of about Forty years and able to work and gain
a sufficient maintenance and her the said negro woman
named Sarah Sye I do declare to be henceforth free
manumitted and discharged from all manner of service
or servitude to me my Executors or administrators for ever
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed my seal this Eighth day of January in the year of
our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty
Signed Sealed and delivered
       in the presence of                  Job Guest   (seal)
Geo Munroe   Jos J Nicholson

    At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
    Anne Arundel County to wit
          Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified
that on this Eighth day of January in the year of our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty before
me a Justice of the peace of the State of maryland
for the 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


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