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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 609   View pdf image
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                              609

and the negroe woman therein named to be
manumitted and discharged from all service to him
as 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
3   Recorded the 1st day of July 1840


       To all whom it may Concern  Be it known That
I John maynard 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 negro woman Maria
Maynard aged about twenty five years and able to
work and gain a sufficient maintenance and her the
said Negro woman named Maria Maynard I do
declare to be hence forth 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 second day of november in the year of our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty
Signed Sealed and delivered              
       in the presence of                    his
          N H Green                   John X Maynard   (seal)
          J W Hunter                        mark

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


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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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