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Prince George's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1829
Volume 762, Page 198   View pdf image
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       Maryland Prince Georges County Sc.t

                I hereby certify that Negro James otherwise
       called James Hall the Bearer hereof of a mulatto man
       about forty two years of age five feet five and a half
       inches high has a small scar over the right eye and
       a scar which seems to have been occasioned by a cut under
       the bottom of the left foot  That the said James Hall
       is a free man and was set free by a Deed of Manumission
       ^from George Vemmes^ duly acknowledged and recorded in my office the 13.th
       day of March 1824

       Identified by  (seal)  In Testimony &.c
       Basil Bowling
                                                          Aquila Beall Sen
                   March 18.th 1824                  P G Cy Ct


       Maryland Prince Georges County to wit

                   I hereby certify that Henry otherwise
       called Henry Smith the Bearer hereof a dark
       mulatto Boye about twenty years of age four feet
       ten inches high has a scar on his right hand
       is a free boy that the said Henry Smith being the
       reputed son of Nancy Smith as woman who
       held me entitled to her freedom by the last will &
       testament of Lucy Wheeler bearing date the twenty
       eighth day of December anno Domini seventeen hundred
       & ninety six                                          Aquila Beall Clk

                      In testimony &c
                                        April 4.th 1824


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