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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
Volume 831, Page 633   View pdf image
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said Nicholas Johnson has performed his time of
servitude if no ships are able to be found in the harbour of
Maryland bound to Africa where our Coloured people are
gone to reach in such case the said Nicholas Johnson is
hereby authorised with this paper or a Certificate
from the Clerk of ann Arundel county to the amount of
this original manumission to press on from Maryland
to any of the Northern parts for the sole purpose of
procuring a ship bound to same settlement of Christian
coloured people in Africa to make it his future home
and residence I do declare that after the said Nicholas
Johnson has performed his time of servitude Consistent
with the laws of maryland in such cases that the said
Nicholas Johnson shall be free as hereby is manumitted
and discharged from all manner of servitude or service
to me my heirs Executors or administrators for ever
In witness Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal thus
Signed Sealed and delivered
in the presence of   John O Battee      Ann C Battee  (seal)
       Saml H Hamilton

   On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
      Received on this day of the date within mentioned
the sum of one dollars Current money it being the full
consideration money mentioned within
                                              Ann C Battee

    Anne Arundel County to wit
          On this seventh day of February 1844  Personally
appears Ann C Battee to the within instrument of
writing before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace
of the State of maryland for the sid county and
acknowledges the same to be her act and deed for the
purposes within mentioned and the servant man therein
mentioned named to be free manumitted and discharged
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Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844
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