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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 143   View pdf image
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To Jesse K Hines Clerk Cir Court Kent County
       I hereby Certify that a Negro woman now present
and applying for a certificate of freedom named
Nancy Chase aged about forty three years was born
free and raised in Kent County
    Oct 1 1859                           Thomas S Wilmer
    Nancy is 5 ft 1½ high of a brown complexion
    Filed recorded & Certificate issued oct 1st 1859
                                         By Jesse K Hines, Clerk


To Jesse K Hines Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County
       I hereby Certify that a Negro man now present and
applying for a Certificate of freedom named George
Barrel aged about twenty one years was born free
and raised in Kent County
    Oct 13 1859                           N. W. Sparks
       George is 5 ft 8 in high Brown color
Filed recorded & Certificate issued oct 13.th 1859
                                              By Jesse K Hines, Clerk


To the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County
       I hereby Certify that a Negro woman now present
named Margaret Spencer is the Identical Woman
who is mentioned in a Deed of Manumission by the
name of Margaret Clayton executed by W.m
Burrows to Sundry negroes dated the 28th day of
November 1836 and recorded in Liber J.N.G. No 2
pages 463 &c one of the chattle record books for Kent
County then the said margaret is now about 50 years
of age
Nov 1st 1859                           Wm T Hepbron
Margaret is five feet 8½ inch high of a Dark
complexion
Filed recorded & Certificate issued Nov 1st 1859
                                        By Jesse K. Hines, Clerk


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