Day 1: Historic & Early Americana

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[SLAVERY] 1832 Document re: Manumission of Maryland Man

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Autograph document signed by W.V. Morgan. Frederick County, Maryland, 31 May 1832. 1 page, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. Docketed to verso.

A manumission document attesting that Arnold Elder "makes oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that he knows Charles Lee, a coloured man now before me, to be the same person manumitted by Mary Livers."

Indeed, Charles Lee is recorded as being manumitted "immediately" by Mary Livers on 25 May 1827 in Manumission Deeds of Frederick County, Maryland, 1748-1865 (Vol. II, p. 67).

In the 1820 Census, Mary Catherine Livers (1797-1875), lived in a household that enslaved 8 individuals, by 1830, it had decreased to 1 male (aged 24-35). Charles Lee appears in the 1830 and 1840 Federal Census living with several other "Free Colored Persons."

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Another Free Black man named Charles Lee who had purchased his freedom from John Bayard in 1804. Lee lived in Frederick County as well, and appears in the 1820, 1830, and 1840 Census data as well.

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Day 1: Historic & Early Americana

[SLAVERY] 1832 Document re: Manumission of Maryland Man

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