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Anne Arundel County, Manumission Record, 1844-1866
Volume 832, Page 83   View pdf image
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                                        83

To all whom it may concern
Be it Known that I John Smith free negro of Anne Arundel
County in the State of Maryland for divers good causes and
considerations me thereunto moving and especially in
consideration that she is my wife 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 Amy my wife
as aforesaid (whom I purchased in eighteen hundred and
thirty six on the twenty second day of February from David
Lairbank of Talbot County in the state aforesaid and who has
been in my possession since the eleventh day of January eighteen
hundred and thirty eight on which last said day I made
to her said former master the final payment on the contract
of purchase and who is now in my possession she being of the
age of forty four years able to work and gain a sufficient
livelihood and maintenance and her the said negro woman
named Amy my wife as aforesaid I do declare to be henceforth
free manumitted and discharged from all manner of
servitude or service me my executors or administrators
forever      In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal the seventeenth day of December in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of           his
    James Revell   Jno G. Taylor                     John X Smith   (seal)
                                                                          mark
    Anne Arundel County Sct
                                           Be it remembered that on this
seventeenth day of December 1853 personally appears John Smith
free negro party to the within instrument of writing before me
the subscriber a justice of the peace of the state of Maryland for the
said County and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed
for the purposes within mentioned
                                  Acknowledged before
paid   Recorded 6 Jany 1854               Jno G. Taylor
Ex d d.d


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