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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 96   View pdf image
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I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted and
discharged from all manner of service or servitude to me
my executors or administrators forever.  Witness my hand
this fourth day of October 1854
Signed Sealed and delivered in         Thomas X Benson
presence of
          John G Cromwell
Franklin S. Cromwell
At the foot of the aforegoing was thus written to wit
State of Maryland   Anne Arundel County to wit
On this fourth day of October in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and fifty four before the subscriber a
Justice of the peace of the state of Maryland in and for
the County aforesaid personally appeared Thomas Benson
who is Known to me of my own Knowledge to be the
person named and described as and professing to be the
party manumittor in the foregoing instrument of writing
and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed
paid                           John B. Welhelm  J P.
62½   Recorded the 7th day of November 1854


To all whom it may concern be it Known that I William
Shipley of Anne Arundel County in the state of Maryland for
divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving
have released from slavery manumitted and set free and by
these presents do hereby release from slavery manumit and
set free all the following negro slaves viz Eliza Jackson
aged twenty six years and her children Mary Anne aged
about six years Samuel aged about five years Elizabeth
aged about three years and Martha aged about ten months
all sound and healthy and she the said Eliza Jackson
and her children  Mary Anne Samuel Elizabeth and
Martha I do declare to be henceforth free manumitted
and discharged from all manner of servitude to me my


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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
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