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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 14   View pdf image
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proved by testimony which is satisfactory to me
that she is the identical person mentioned
and described by the name of Elizabeth
Sheppard 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
(Kent County     )      the seal of Kent County Court
(Court Maryland)      this twenty sixth 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 26th of September 1849
                                                 By Joseph Redue Clerk


To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                         This is to certify that Mary Ford woman
of color was free born and was raised in
Kent County Maryland and is now about
seventeen years and nine months old
                                  Benjamin F. Price
                                                 Oct 2nd 1849

Filed and recorded October 2nd 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 hath been proved by testimony
which is satisfactory to me that the bearer
hereof a negro woman named Mary Ford aged
about seventeen years and nine months five
feet one inch and three fourths of an inch
high of a light complexion with a scar over
the right eye and also one on the right
elbow from a burn was born free and
raised in Kent County


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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
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