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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 24   View pdf image
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County by his certain deed of Manumission bearing date on the
twenty ninth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and forty
nine did manumit, liberate, set free and discharge from slavery a
negro woman named Mary Jane now about thirty three years old
I further certify that a negro woman now present (the bearer
hereof) called and known by the name of Mary Jane aged about
thirty three years five feet three and a quarter inches high of a light
complexion and has a small scar in the left eyebrow has
proved by testimony which is satisfactory to me that she is the
identical person mentioned and described by the name of Mary
Jane 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 the seal of Kent
(Kent County     )        County Court this twenty ninth 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 29th day of December 1849
                                                          By Joseph Redue Clk


       To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                               I hereby certify that the bearer hereof a negro man
now present called Hemsley Emory is the identical negro man who
was manumitted by Ebenezer T. Massey by deed of Manumission dated
the 31st day of December Eighteen hundred and forty nine duly
executed and recorded in the office of the Clerk of Kent County Court
said Hemsley Emory is about thirty five years of age about five feet
ten inches high of black complexion      T. G. H. Massey
                                                          Jan 26th 1850

Filed and Recorded January 26th 1850 and certificate of Freedom issued
as follows
    State of Maryland Kent County sct
                                  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 Ebenezer T. Massey
of the said County by his certain Deed of Manumission bearing date


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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
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