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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 107   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Sc  On
this third day of September in the year Eighteen hundred
and fifty four before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace of
the Said State in and for said County personally appeared
Nicholas J Watkins he being known to me of my own
knowledge to be the person who is named and described as
professing to be the party to the foregoing deed or Instrument
of writing and doth acknowledge the same to be his act
and deed for the purposes therein mentioned
          Acknowledged before and Certified by
                                              John E Stalker
Recorded the 3 day of September 1855


To all whom it may concern be it known that I William Lomax 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 named Maria Alsop
being of the age of twenty five years and able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance and her children Eliza Alsop aged two
years and Ellen Alsop aged three years and her the said negro woman
named Maria Alsop and her two above mentioned children named Eliza
and Ellen Alsop I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted and
discharged from all manner of service or servitude to me my executors
or administrators forever                                    his
In witness whereof we have hereto         William x Lomax
signed our names this 26th day of                     mark
December 1855
          James Boyle         James W. Allen

State of Maryland
                            Anne Arundel County Sct
Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that on this 23rd day
of December eighteen hundred and fifty five before me the subscriber
a justice of the peace of the state of Maryland in and for said
County personally appeared William Lomax party he being


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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
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