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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 2   View pdf image
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    To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                      I hereby certify that Samuel Derry free man of
Color now between twenty one and twenty two years of age is the
son of free parents his father and Mother having both been
free long before the said Samuel Derry was born his fathers
name is James Derry and his Mothers name Eliza Derry the
said Samuel Derry was raised in Kent County and brought up
to farming                                 Edward Comegys
                                                       1849 July 31st
          Filed and Recorded July 31st 1849 and certificate of Freedom
    issued as follows
                   Maryland Kent County to wit:
                                     Pursuant to the directions of an Act of
the General Assembly of Maryland passed at November session
Eighteen hundred and five  I hereby certify to all persons whom
it doth or may concern that it has this day been proved by
testimony satisfactory to me that a certain Samuel Derry
the bearer hereof was born of a free woman and that he was
raised in said County and brought up to farming the said
negro is five feet six inches in height between twenty one and
twenty two years of age of light complexion and has a scar partly
over the left eyebrow
(seal of)                  In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name
(Kent County)        and affix the seal of Kent County Court the thirty
(Court Maryland)   first day of July in the year Eighteen hundred
                              and forty nine               Joseph Redue Clk of
                                                                   Kent County Court
             Issued and Recorded on the 31st of July 1849
                                                       By Jos Redue Clk


    To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                   I hereby certify that Alexander Riley free Man of color
now between twenty one and two years of age is the son of Araminta
Ringgold a free woman and who was also born free she was born
and has always lived in Kent County and her son the said Alexander
Riley was born and has always lived in said County
and was brought up to the farming business   Hugh Wallis
                                                                         August 1st 1849


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