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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 13   View pdf image
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high of a lightish complexion was born free
and raised in Kent County
(  seal of             )      In testimony whereof I hereto set my
(Kent County     )      hand and affix the seal of Kent
(Court Maryland)      County Court this 21st day of September
                                  Eighteen hundred and forty nine
                                                                        Joseph Redue Clerk of Kent
for Proof see the certificate to James Potts freedom      County Court Maryland
Issued and recorded on the 21st of September 1849
                                                       By Joseph Redue Clerk


To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                            This is to certify that negro Elizabeth
Sheppard who is now present is the identical person
mentioned in a deed of Manumission executed
by me this 26th september 1849 and which is
filed this day of record                  Martha Brice
                                              Sept 26th 1849

Filed and recorded September 26th 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 a certain Martha
Brice of the said County by her certain deed of
Manumission bearing date on the twenty
sixth day of September Eighteen hundred and
forty nine did manumit, liberate, set free
and discharge from slavery a negro woman
named Elizabeth Sheppard now about thirty
eight years of age I further certify that a
negro woman now present (the bearer hereof)
now called and known by the name of
Elizabeth Sheppard aged about thirty eight
years five feet one inch and one quarter of
an inch high of a dark complexion has


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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
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