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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 109   View pdf image
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Maryland   Anne Arundel County to wit  On this 1st day of
May 1856 personally appeared Stephen Beard Senr and Betty W
Beard parties to the within instrument of writing before me the
subscriber a justice of the peace of the state of Maryland for said County
and acknowledged the same to be their act and deed for the purposes
within mentioned and the negro woman within named to be
henceforth manumitted and discharged from all services to them
or to any claiming under them and to be free and manumitted
according to the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided
                            Acknowledged before
                                           Jos Nicholson J P A A County
Recorded the 11th day of April 1856


To all whom it may concern be it known that I Sophia Brice
of the city of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania for divers
good causes and considerations me thereunto moving as also in
further consideration of one dollar current money to me in hand
paid have released from slavery liberated manumitted and set
free my negro woman named Harriet Stepney being of the age
of thirty three years and able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance which said negro woman was
sold for a term of years by Mrs Catharine S. M Ray of the City of
Annapolis and state of Maryland and manumitted by her when
her term of service within shall have expired which will to on the
seventh day of August in the year eighteen hundred and fifty
nine I do likewise hereby manumit set free and release from
slavery my negro boy Richard J the child of my said negro
woman Harriett of the age of eight months from and after
the twenty sixth day of August in the year eighteen hundred
and eighty when he will have attained the age of twenty
five years and her the said woman Harriett from
henceforth and him the said boy Richard from and after
the aforesaid twenty sixth day of August in the year
eighteen hundred and eighty.   I do declare to be free


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