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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 11   View pdf image
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1848 and recorded in liber   J. N. G. No
pages 192 and 193                  Wm Camp
                                           14th Sept 1849

Filed and recorded September 14th 1849 and certificate
of freedom issued as follows
Maryland Kent County to wit
                   I Joseph Redue Clerk of Kent County
Court hereby certify to all whom it doth or may
concern that it appears by the records of Kent
County aforesaid that Hynson Smith Elizabeth
Smith and Martha H. Griffith all of the said
County by their certain deed of Manumission
bearing date on the eighth day of october in the
year Eighteen hundred and forty eight did
manumit, liberate, set free and discharge
from slavery a negro woman named Hannah
Ringgold about forty years of age      I further
certify that a negro woman not present (the
bearer hereof) called and known by the name
of Hannah Ringgold aged about forty one years
five feet three and a quarter inches high with
a small scar on the forehead and of a dark
complexion has proved by testimony which is
satisfactory to me that she is the identical
person mentioned and described by the name of
Hannah Ringgold in the deed of Manumission
above referred to and that she was raised in
Kent County                     In testimony whereof I hereto
(  seal of                     subscribe my name and affix the
(Kent County             seal of Kent County Court this fourteenth
(Court Maryland)       day of September in the year Eighteen
                                  hundred and forty nine
                                              Joseph Redue Clerk of Kent
                                              County Court State of Maryland

Issued and recorded on the 14th of September 1849
                                        By Joseph Redue Clerk


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