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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 6   View pdf image
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of writing to be their act and deed according to the true intent
and meaning thereof and acts of Assembly in such case made and
provided.  Witness my hand the day and year above written
paid                                             Gassaway Winterson
2½   Recorded the 12.th day of November 1814


To all whom it may concern be it known that I James
Cheston of Anne Arundel County State of Maryland for
divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving
having released from slavery liberated manumitted and
set free and by these presents do hereby liberate manumit and
set free my negro woman Charlotte Davis to effect on Jan.y 1.st
1846  Also my negro girl Sally Smith to take effect on Jan.y 1.st 1858
Also my negro girl Sophy Carroll to take effect on Jan.y 1.st 1853
and also my negro boy James Smith to take effect on Jan.y 1.st 1855
at which dates they will be of age and able to work & again a
sufficient livelihood and maintenance and them the said negroes I
do declare to be free manumitted and discharged from all manner
of service or servitude to me my executors or administrators from
& after the dates above mentioned.  In Witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal this 12.th day of November in the
year of our Lord 1844
Signed sealed and delivered in the         Ja.s Cheston   (seal)
presence of J W Hunter
    On the back of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
Anne Arundel County to wit:  On this 12.th day of November
1814 personally appears James Cheston before the subscriber a Justice
of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid and acknowledged the within
deed or instrument of writing to be his act and deed according to
the true intent and meaning thereof and the Acts of Assembly in
such case made and provided  Witness my hand the day and
year above written
paid                                   J W Hunter
2½    Recorded the 12.th day of November 1844  


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