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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 122   View pdf image
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from slavery liberate Manumit and set free my female
slave a mulatto woman named Elizabeth Folks
being of the age of twenty seven years and able to work
and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance
for herself & family and her three Children vizt Isabella
a mulatto Child aged six years John a black Child aged
four years and Sam a black child aged two years and
her the said Elizabeth Folks and her Children
Isabella Folks, John Folks and Saml Folks I do
declare to be henceforth free Manumitted and
discharged from all manner of servitude or service
to me my Executors or administrators for ever    In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
my seal this fourteenth day of may in the year of our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine
Signed Sealed and delivered
in the presence of us                  Jno B Scott
Th Karney      D Ridgely
    At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
    Be it remembered that on this fourteenth day of
May 1839 personally appears John B Scott party
to the within instrument of writing before me
the Subscriber a Justice of the peace of the state of
Maryland for said County and acknowledges the same
to be her act and deed for the purposes within mentioned
          Acknowledged before      Joseph Sands
    Recorded the 6 day of August 1859


To all persons whom it doth or may Concern
Be it known that I John B Scott of anne
arundel County in the state of maryland for
divers good causes and considerations me
thereunto moving do hereby release from slavery


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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
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