Handwritten manumission document for thirteen enslaved persons

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A single folded sheet, handwritten manumission document. On one side, the document reads "This is to certify that I John Berry of the Territory of Arkansas and the county of Hempstead by these presents do emancipate and set free at my death, or sooner if I think proper, all my negroes now in my possession, which namely are there, Solloman Dina Alphred Amareetta, Neroe Prisella Peter, Lanley, of another family as followeth namely Kitty Lewis Caroline Vice Lee which I do hereby discharge at the time of my death as above, all these above negroes I have [revised?

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