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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 107   View pdf image
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To The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County
          This is to certify that a negro man named Jas
Graves now present and applying for a certificate
of Freedom was born free and raised
in Kent County
    Jary 12th 1858                     Benjamin Fiddis

    James is 6 feet ½ inch high and of Light Complexion
    Filed recorded and certificate issued Jary 12th 1858
                                           by Jesse K Hines Clerk


Maryland Kent County Sct
          on this 22nd day of January 1858 personally
appeared Pere Tilghman (free negro) of Kent County
before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace for Kent
County and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty
God that he has lost his certificate of freedom given
him by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County
that it was lost or stolen from his Pocket about ten
days ago and that he has not sold nor loaned nor
given it to any other person but that the same was
really lost to him
                         Sworn before   James Graves
To the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County
I hereby certify that negro Pere Tilghman now present
and applying for a certificate of freedom is
personally Known to me and that I have heard Mrs
Harriett Thomas the widow of John Thomas from whose
Estate Pere got free speak of him as having obtained
his freedom from her Husbands Estate  I further
Certify that Mrs Thomas called a few days ago to
see me and to request me to assist Pere to get his
papers And from my knowledge of Pere I have
no doubt that the account he gives of Losing his
pass is true
                                  A N Sparks
Jary 23rd 1858


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