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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 12   View pdf image
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    To the Clerk of Kent County Court
       We the subscribers know Rebecca Potts and James
Potts the bearer hereof and certify hereby that they
are the children of Thomas Potts (Free Negro)
were free born given under our hands and
seals this       day of March 1848 and they were
both raised in Kent County      William F Smyth
                                               John McDaniel
                                                  Jno E. Casey
                                               September 21st 1849

    Filed and recorded September 21st 1849 and
certificates 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 hath been proved by
testimony which is satisfactory to me that
James Potts the bearer hereof a negro man
aged about twenty eight years five feet three
and three quarter inches high of a Dark
complexion was born free and raised in Kent
County                            In testimony whereof I hereto set
(  seal of             )      my hand and affix the seal of Kent
(Kent County     )      County Court this twenty first day of
(Court Maryland)      September Eighteen hundred and forty nine
                                                            Joseph Redue Clerk of
                                                       Kent County Court Maryland
Issued and recorded on the 21st of September 1849
                                              By Joseph Redue Clerk


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 hath been proved by testimony which is
satisfactory to me that Rebecca Potts the bearer
hereof a negro woman aged about twenty one or
twenty two years five feet and about an half inch


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