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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 104   View pdf image
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                                    104

Know all men by these presents that whereas I Catharine S
M Ray of Anne Arundel County Maryland did on the 7th
day of September in the year 1849 sell to John Henry Brice of
Baltimore County in the state of Maryland a negro woman
named Harriet and her daughter Fanny for a term of years
and did execute a Bill of sale to the said Brice for the said
negroes on the day above mentioned which said Bill of sale I did
convey the said Harriet to the said Brice to serve time for the
period of ten years from the date aforesaid and the said
Fanny to serve the said Brice until the fifth day of October
in the year 1876 at the expiration of which several periods the
said negros Harriet and Fanny were to be manumitted and
set free   Now therefore for these and other good causes and
considerations as also in further consideration of the sum of one
dollar to the in hand paid and the receipt of which I do hereby
acknowledge I have released from slavery liberated manumitted
and set free and by these presents do hereby release from slavery
manumit and set free the said negroes Harriet and Fanny
from and after the periods for which they were severally sold that
is to say the said Harriet to be set free from slavery on the said
seventh day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and fifty nine and the said Fanny to be free from and after the
aforesaid fifth day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and seventy six from which said dates I do declare
the said negroes to be free manumitted and discharged from all
manner of servitude or service to me my executors or
administrators forever the said negroes being able to work
and gain a sufficient livelihood.  In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this fifth day of
August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty five
Signed Sealed and delivered      Catharine S M Ray   (seal)
in presence of Jno. G. Taylor
         Jno Ridout Jr


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