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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 72   View pdf image
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                                        72

At the foot of the foregoing was thus written to wit
State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Sct
Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that on this
fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty two before the subscriber a Justice of the
peace for the said State in and for said County personally
appears Cornelius R. Stribling 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 of writing and doth
acknowledge the said indenture or instrument of writing to
be his act deed.  In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe
my name on the day and year aforesaid.   J. W. Hunter
The object of my and intent of manumitting my servant
Edith Merchant is that she may go to Liberia with her
children                                          C R Stribling
    Recorded the 12th April 1852


Whereas by an order of the Chancellor dated on the
twenty ninth day of March in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and fifty two Thomas Franklin
Trustee of Mary Shaw was authorised to make sale of
Ann Kennard the slave of the said Mary Shaw upon
the terms mentioned in the petition of the said Trustee
upon which said order was passed Therefore to all whom
it may concern be it known that the said Thomas
Franklin Trustee as aforesaid of Anne Arundel County
in the State of Maryland for and in consideration of
the sum of Three hundred dollars to him in hand
paid by the said Ann Kennard the receipt whereof
is hereby acknowledged has released from slavery
liberated manumitted and set free and by these
presents doth hereby release from slavery liberate
manumit and set free the said slave woman
of the said Mary Shaw named Ann Kennard being
                                                                   (of the)


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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
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