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considerations me thereunto moving have released from slavery manumitted and set free and by these presents do hereby release from slavery liberate manumit and set free my negro man named William Lane being of the age of twenty two years and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance. And him the said negro man named William Lane 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 witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty third day of March one thousand Eight hundred and forty nine his Witnesses W.m M. Meekins Benjamin x Sherbert (seal) James Higgins Jr mark State of Maryland Anne Arundel County to wit: On this 23.rd day of March 1849 before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County personally appears Benjamin Sherbert and acknowledged the above to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned Joseph Chaney Co 62½ Recorded the 6.th day of August 1849
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