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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 101   View pdf image
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slavery my negro woman named Harriet
aged about forty years her freedom to take
effect from at the date of this Instrument
and also her four sons named Charles Thomas
George Washington James Henry and Albion
that is to say that of the said Charles
Thomas on the twenty sixty day of september
Eighteen hundred and fifty seven
that of the said George Washington on the
first day of April Eighteen hundred & sixty
two that of the said James Henry on the thirteenth
day of March Eighteen hundred and
sixty six and that of the said Albion on
the sixteenth day of september Eighteen
hundred and sixty nine at which several
periods they will respectively have
attained the age of twenty five years or
in the event of my death before such period
or periods the freedom of all or either
of said boys to take effect at the time
of the happening of said event and I
do hereby declare them the said Harriet
Charles Thomas George Washington James
Henry and Albion to be free and released
from all Manner of service and servitude
whatsoever to me and my heirs & representatives
at the period herein before mentioned
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal on this
twenty third day of July Eighteen hundred
& fifty five
       Witness
R. C. Nicholson            Charlotte Spurier (seal)
G. D. Spurrier

state of Maryland Howard County sct
on this twenty third day of July Eighteen hundred
and fifty five before the subscriber a
justice of the Peace of the state of Maryland
in and for Howard County aforesaid personally
appeared Charlotte spurrier party to the
foregoing Deed of Manumission or instrument
of writing and doth acknowledge
the same to be her act and deed
       acknowledged before
                                           R. C. Nicholson J. P.


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