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55 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 75cts Recorded the 15.th day of June 1849 paid
considerations me thereunto moving have released from slavery liberated manumitted and set free and by these presents do release from slavery liberate manumit and set free my negro man named Evan Bacon being of the age of forty ^two^ years and being able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance to be henceforth free manumitted and discharged from all manner of service or servitude to me my Executors or Administrators forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty second day of July eighteen hundred and fifty Witness John Spears, John Snowden Rezin Snowden (seal) Anne Arundel County Sct. Then came before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid and acknowledged the within manumission to be his act and deed John Spears J. P. Recorded 25.th July 1850 |
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