| Section VI - Massey Data Bank | One Maryland Massey Family by George
Langford, Jr. 1901-1996 ©Cullen G. Langford and George Langford, III, 2010 |
Maryland Land Records, Queen Anne's County, Liber JT #1, Folio 285
David Massey, manumission of Elizabeth Jackson, September 18, 1834
| September 18,
1834 (Recorded March 3, 1835): David Massey of Queen Anne's County in
Maryland manumits Elizabeth Jackson, seventeen years of age, thereby
setting her free from slavery, service, and servitude forever.
Witnesses: Matthias George and Louisa Tinte; certified by Justice of the
Peace for Queen Anne's County, Matthias George. Note: High-resolution images of the deed at right can be viewed at the Maryland State Archives, but registration is required in advance of doing so. Once you have registered, you can access the images by entering the county clerk's initials ("JT" in this example) and volume number ("1" above) and the folio page number ("285" above). |
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Anne's County, to wit: Be it remembered that, on the third day of March
in the year eighteen hundred and thirty five, the following deed of
manumission was brought to be recorded, to wit: To all whom it may concern, be it known that I, David Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland, for divers good causes and considerations, me thereunto moving, have released from slavery, liberated, manumitted, and set free one negro woman named Elizabeth Jackson, being about the age of seventeen years old and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood and maintenance, and her, the said Negro woman named Elizabeth Jackson, I do declare to be henceforth free, manumitted and discharged from all manner of service or servitude to me, my executors, or administrators, forever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
Acknowledged before Matthias George
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