(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Affidavit asserting that "Negro Joe" (described in detail) had been
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Affidavit asserting that "Negro Joe" (described in detail) had been manumitted eight years ago. Manuscript document signed by Michael Hauser as Justice of the Peace. One page, 8 x 6¾ inches, docketed on verso; short tape repair along one fold, minor toning. Frederick County, MD, 19 August 1816 "Robert Ritchie . . . makes oath that Negro Joe, living in Frederick Town . . . aged about thirty-nine years, about five feet five and a quarter inches high, having a scar on his right leg a little above the ancle, also a scar above the left eye, and several others mall scars on the forehead, is the same man, who was manumitted by Benjamin Hall . . . on or about the 17th December 1808." The freed man is named in full as Joseph Seymour on verso.
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(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Affidavit asserting that "Negro Joe" (described in detail) had been manumitted eight years ago. Manuscript document signed by Michael Hauser as Justice of the Peace. One page, 8 x 6¾ inches, docketed on verso; short tape repair along one fold, minor toning. Frederick County, MD, 19 August 1816 "Robert Ritchie . . . makes oath that Negro Joe, living in Frederick Town . . . aged about thirty-nine years, about five feet five and a quarter inches high, having a scar on his right leg a little above the ancle, also a scar above the left eye, and several others mall scars on the forehead, is the same man, who was manumitted by Benjamin Hall . . . on or about the 17th December 1808." The freed man is named in full as Joseph Seymour on verso.
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