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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 10   View pdf image
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and in consideration of the services rendered
unto me by my negro woman Phillis Johnson
have released from slavery liberated manumitted
and set free my negro woman Phillis Johnson
being of the age of 38 years and able to work and
gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance
and the said Phillis Johnson I do declare to be
henceforth 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 second day of April
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
forty five
Signed sealed and              Elizabeth Harwood  (seal)
delivered in the presence of
W.m Glover  Jos. H Nicholson
    At the foot of the foregoing was thus written to wit
          Anne Arundel County to wit
Be it remembered that on this second day
of April in the year eighteen hundred and
forty five personally appears Elizabeth
Harwood party to the within instrument
of writing before me the Subscriber a justice
of the peace of the State of Maryland in
and for said County and acknowledged the
within instrument of writing to be his act
and deed for the purposes therein mentioned
and the negro woman Phillis Johnson within
named to be henceforth manumitted according
to the act of Assembly in such case made and
provided and I certify that the said Elizabeth
Harwood is known to me to be the same and
identical with the person named as and professing
to be the party grantee in the foregoing instrument


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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
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