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Prince George's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1829
Volume 762, Page 58   View pdf image
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       Seven and an half inches high having a large scar on
       the left hand and another on the thumb the former occasioned
       by the cut of an ax and the latter by a saw is a
       freeman and became entitled to his freedom in Virtue
       of a Deed of Manumission from Charles Eversfield
       dated the Twenty Ninth day of December Eighteen
       Hundred and thirteen duly exhibited and recorded in
       liber J R M N.o 16 pages 87 & 88 one of the land
       records of Prince Georges County

                   Given under my hand and seal of office this
                   ninth day of July in the year Eighteen
                   Hundred and fourteen
                                  John R. Magruder Clk
                                                    P G Cy C.t


       Maryland Prince Georges County to wit

            I hereby certify that the bearer hereof James Daffin
       a bright mulatto man about five feet one and a half
       inches high and now in his forty third year was raised in
       the family of M.r Joseph Daffin of Dorchester County on
       the Eastern Shore of Maryland and purchased of him by
       Osborn Sprigg of Prince Georges County in the year
       Seventeen Hundred and Ninety is a freeman being
       the identical person mentioned in a Deed of Manumission
       from said Osborn Sprigg dated the fifth day of October
       Eighteen hundred and fourteen

                In testimony thereof I do hereto subscribe my
                name and office the seal of the county court aforesaid
                this seventeenth day of October Eighteen hundred and fourteen
                                  John R. Magruder Clk
                                                     P G Cy C.t

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