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                                  Certificates granted to Free Negroes under the Act of Assembly


Names
Height
Age
Complexion
When freed
Negro Jack
 5 feet 5
Inches
 21 Years of
Age
 Dark mulatto
 Freed by the last Will and Testament
of Elizabeth Basill the
3.d day of August 1793
Negro Damon
 5 feet 3
Inches
 About 40
Years old
 very black
complexion
 Freed by the last Will and Testament
of Richard Cromwell the 10.th August
1804
Negro Tom
 5 feet 6
Inches
 24 Years
of Age
 black Complexion
 Freed by the last Will and Testament
of Richard Cromwell the 10.th August
1804
Negro James
 5 feet 8
Inches
 About 25
Years of Age
 Dark Yellowish
complexion
 Freed by the last Will and Testament
of Mary Atwell the 4.th Jan.y 1811
Negro Richard 5 Feet 3¾
Inches 		About 29
years old 		bright yellowish
Complexion 		Freed by the last Will and Testament
of Mary Atwell the 4.th Jany
1811
Negro Phillis
 5 feet 3¾
Inches
 About 44
years old
 bright yellow
complexion
 Freed by the last Will and Testament
of Mary Atwell the 4th Jany 
1811.
Negro Will

 5 feet 7
Inches
 About 37
years old
 Black
Freed by the last Will and Testament
of Mary Atwell the 4th Jany 
1811.
Negro John
 5 feet 10
Inches
 About 22
Years old
 Dark & pleasant
countenance
 Freed by the last Will and Testament
of Mary Atwell the 4th Jany 
1811.
James Franklin
 5 feet 6
Inches
 About 44
Years old
 Black
Was set free by the last Will and
Testament of Sarah Franklin, which
will was mislaid or lost as appears by
the Depositions of Thomas Norman
and Robert Franklin
Phebe
 4 feet 2
Inches
 About 55
Years of
Age
 Black Complexion
 Was freed by the last Will and
Testament of Richard Goodwin the
24.th Day of December 1795
Negro Beall
 About 5 feet
9 Inches high
 30 Years
of Age
 Black Complexion
 Was freed by the last Will and Testament
of Col.o Rezin Hammond 10.th July
1808
Keziah Cromwell
 5 feet 3 Inches
in height
 About 28
Years of
Age
 Black Complexion
 Was freed by the last Will and Testament
of Ann Ailsworth 15.th Aug.t
1809.
Negro Pegg
 5 feet 2 Inches
and ¼
 25 Years
of Age
 very black
Complexion
 was freed by the last Will and Testament
of Rachel Brewer the 24.th Feby
1792.
Negro Ruth
 5 feet
About
40 Years of
Age
 very black
Complexion
 was freed by the last Will and Testament
of Sarah Seeders the 18.th day
of February 1812




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