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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 21   View pdf image
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    To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                      This is to certify that Ebenezer Posey who is now present and
applying for a certificate of Freedom is the identical person mentioned
in a Deed of Manumission executed by Mary Posey of the County aforesaid
on the third day of June in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty
seven and recorded in Liber J. N. G. No 3 page 2 one of the Record
books of Kent County Maryland said Ebenezer Posey is now about
twenty five years of age                     Richard Hynson
                                                             December 27th 1849

Filed and recorded December 27th 1849 and certificate of Freedom issued
as follows
    Maryland Kent County sct
                     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 Mary Posey of said County
by her certain Deed of Manumission bearing date on the third day
of June in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty seven did manumit
liberate set free and discharge from slavery a mulatto man named
Ebenezer Posey born on the first day of September in the year Eighteen
hundred and twenty four   I further certify that a Mulatto man
now present (the bearer hereof) called and known by the name
of Ebenezer Posey aged about twenty five years five feet two and
a half inches high of a yellow complexion and has a light scar
over the left eye has proved by testimony which is satisfactory
to me that he is the identical person mentioned and described by the
name of Ebenezer Posey in the Deed of Manumission above referred
to and that he was raised in Kent County         In testimony whereof
(  seal of             )      I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of
(Kent County     )      Kent County Court this twenty seventh day of December
(Court Maryland)      in the year Eighteen hundred and forty nine
                                                          Joseph Redue Clerk of
                                                             Kent County Court state of Maryland

Issued and recorded on the 27th day of December 1849
                                                                By Joseph Redue Clk


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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
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