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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 49   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Sc.t
Be it remembered and it is hereby certified
that on this 18.th day of November eighteen
hundred and forty eight before the subscriber a
Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in
and for said County personally appears
James Legg he being known to me to be the
person who is named and described as and
professing to be a party to the foregoing deed or
indenture and doth acknowledge the said
indenture or instrument of writing to be his
act and deed  In testimony whereof I
hereunto subscribe my name on the day and
year aforesaid
                                  J. W. Hunter
Co 62½   Recorded the 18.th day of November 1848
paid


Deed of manumission from
            James Cheston
                     to
            Walter Ward
 To all whom it may
concern be it known
that I James Cheston
of Anne Arundel
County in the state of
Maryland for divers good causes and
consideration 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 man Walter Ward being
under forty years of age and able to work
and gain a sufficient livelihood and
maintenance and him the said negro
man named Walter Ward I do declare to
be henceforth free manumitted and discharged
from all manner of service or servitude to


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