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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 16   View pdf image
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       To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                  This is to certify that a mulatto woman
Harriet Lockerman formerly Harriet Thomas
now present is the identical person mentioned
in a deed of Manumission executed by me
on the thirtieth day of March Eighteen hundred
and thirty six and which is recorded in
Liber J. N. G. No 2 pages 420 and 421 one of
the record books for Kent County
                                                    Geo S. Hollyday
                                                          Nov 6th 1849

Filed and recorded November 6th 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 George S. Hollyday
of the said County by his certain deed of
Manumission bearing date the thirtieth day
of March in the year eighteen hundred and thirty
six did manumit, liberate, set free and discharge
from slavery a Mulatto woman of dark complexion
named Harriet then about twenty one
years of age I further certify that a dark
mulatto woman now present (the bearer hereof)
called and known by the name of Harriet
Lockerman aged between thirty four and thirty
five years five feet three inches high of a
dark mulatto complexion and has a scar
between the wrist and elbow of the left
arm has proved by testimony which is satisfactory
to me that she if the identical
person mentioned and described by the
name of Harriet in the deed of manumission
above referred to and that she was raised
in Kent County


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