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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 41   View pdf image
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Deed of Manumission
from Dr John Ridout
               to
Samuel Blackstone
 To all whom it may
concern be it known that
I John Ridout of the City
of Annapolis in the state
of Maryland for divers good causes me
thereunto moving and also in further consideration
of the sum of five dollars to me in
hand paid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge
have released from slavery liberated
manumitted and set free my
negro man named Samuel Blackstone
being of the age of about twenty years and able
to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintenance and him the said negro man
named Samuel Blackstone I do declare to be
henceforth free manumitted and discharged
from all manner of service or servitude to me
my executors or administrators forever  In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed my seal this twenty fifth day of March
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
forty eight
Signed sealed and delivered    Jno Ridout (seal)
In the presence of J. W. Hunter
Anne Arundel County Sct.  On this 25.th day of
March 1848 personally appeared John Ridout party
to the foregoing 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 his act and deed for the purposes
therein mentioned and the negro man therein
named to be henceforth manumitted and
discharged from all services to him or to any
claiming under him and to be free


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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
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