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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 102   View pdf image
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Filed recorded & certificate issued Sept 29 1857
                                                 by   J F Gordon clk


To the Clerk of the Circuit court for Kent County
       This is to certify that a negro man now present called
Freeman Foreman applying for a certificate of freedom
is the identical person mentioned by the name of Freeman
(the child of Charlotte) in a manumission executed by
William Moffett on the 30 Sep 1822 And that the said
Freeman is now about forty six years of age
          Witness                              Ebenezer Welch
    G Jeff Vickers
Freeman is five feet seven and one half inches high
light complexion
Filed recorded & certificate issued Oct 6 1857
                                              by J F Gordon clk


To the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County
    This is to certify that a negro man named William Alfred
Pearce now present and applying for a certificate of freedom
was born of a free woman and raised in Kent County
and is now about twenty one years of age
    Oct 16 1857                           Joseph W Edwards
Wm Alfred Pearce is five feet eight inches high black
complexion
Filed recorded & certificate issued Oct 16 1857
                                                    by J F Gordon clk


To the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County
    This is to certify that a negro man named John Edward
Pearce now present and applying for a certificate of
freedom was born of a free woman and raised in Kent
County and is now about twenty two years of age
    October 20 1857                     Joseph W Edwards
John is five feet five inches high of a black complexion with
a scar caused by a burn on his right wrist
Filed recorded & certif issued Oct 20 1857      by J F Gordon clk


 
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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
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