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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 74   View pdf image
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of the Sum of five dollars to me in hand paid have released
from Slavery liberated and Manumitted and Set free and
doth hereby release from Slavery liberate Manumit and
Set free my negro slave woman called Nancy Adams aged
about thirty Eight years and  able to work and gain a
sufficient livehood and maintenance and I do declare
the said negro woman and all her hereafter born increase
to be free Manumitted and discharged henceforth from
all manner of Servitude or Service to me My Executors or
administrators forever  The Said negro woman is black
and came out of the estate of Dr Richard Hopkins late of
said County  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed My Seal this thirty first day
of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred
and fifty two
Signed Sealed and Delivered
       in the presence of us               Joseph Cole   (seal)
Nelson Phelps  James S Gardner
    State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Sc  Be it remembered
that on this thirty first day of march in the year Eighteen
hundred and fifty two before me the Subscriber a Justice of
the peace of the State of maryland man of Anne Arundel County
aforesaid personally appears the within named Joseph Cole
of Said County and acknowledges the same to be his act
and deed for the purposes therein Mentioned and the negro
woman therein Named with her issue hereafter to be born
to be henceforth Manumitted and discharged from all
Service to him and to any claiming under him and to be
free according to the act of assembly in such cases made
and provided
Ex d d.d         Acknowledged before   A J Phelps
Recorded the 10th day of August 1852


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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
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