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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 75   View pdf image
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                           75

To all whom it may concern:  Be it known that I
George M Mason of the City of Baltimore in the State of
Maryland for divers good causes and considerations me thereto
moving have released from slavery liberated manumitted
and set free and by these presents do hereby
release from slavery liberate manumit and set free
my negro woman named Ann Handy being of the
age of about twenty seven and able to work and gain
a sufficient livelihood and maintenance and her
the said negro woman named Ann Handy I do
declare to be henceforth free manumitted and
discharged from all manner of service or servitude
to me my executors administrators or assigns
Signed Sealed & Delivered in     George M Mason   (seal)
the presence of John Holland
                           J W Hunter
       State of Maryland          Anne Arundel County Sct
Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that on the
twenty seventh day of May in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty three before the
subscriber a justice of the peace for the said State and
County aforesaid personally appears George W Mason
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 and deed.  In Testimony whereof
I hereunto subscribe my name on the day & year
aforesaid                                    J W. Hunter
Received of George W Mason a free man of color nine
hundred dollars in full payment for Ann Handy a
mulatto woman now owned by me and this day sold
to the said George Mason for the sum above stated
Witness my hand this 27 day of May 1853
Witness   John Holland                           John Walton
Ex d d d      J W Hunter      Recorded 27 May 1853


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