Frederick County MD Archives Deed.....Manumission of Slave Called Bill BROWN by Joseph STAUFFER, August 8, 1822
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Manumission of slave called Bill Brown
Written: August 8, 1822
Recorded: August 8, 1822

Frederick County Land Records – JS 16 282

At the request of Negro Bill Brown the following Manumission is recorded 
August 8 th, 1822 to wit:

To all whom it may concern be it known that I Joseph Stauffer of Frederick 
County for divers good causes and consideration ??? thereunto moving have 
released from slavery liberated manumitted and set free and by these presents 
do hereby release from slavery liberate manumitt and set free my negro man 
named Bill otherwise called Bill Brown about thirty two years of age, the said 
negro was divised to the said Joseph Stauffer by the last will and testament 
of his father Daniel Stouffer ???? bearing date the sixteenth day of August 
1797  to be manumitted and set free at the age of thirty five years now this 
instrument therefore witnesseth that the said Joseph Stauffer hath manumitted 
and set freee the aforesaid negro man above named to be henceforth free from 
all manner of servitude or service to me my executors or administrators 
forever.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed by seal 
this 8 th day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty 
two.  Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Geo. Rohr}    	
	Joseph Stouffer {seal}

Which was thus endorsed to wit
Maryland Frederick County to wit  On this 8 th day of August 1822 personally 
appears Joseph Stouffer party to the within instrument of writing before me 
the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid and 
acknowledges the same to be his act and deed for the purposes within mentioned 
and the negro man within named to be henceforth manumitted and discharged from 
all service to him or to any claiming under him and to be free and manumitted 
according to the act of assembly in such cases made approved
  Acknowledged before Geo. Rohr


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