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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 25   View pdf image
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on the thirty first day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and
forty nine did manumit liberate set free and discharge from slavery
a negro man named Hemsley Emory born on the thirty first day of
December in the year Eighteen hundred and fourteen  I further certify
that a negro man now present (the bearer hereof) called and
known by the name of Hemsley Emory aged about thirty five years
five feet ten inches high of a Black complexion and has a small scar
on the right side of his face has proved by testimony which is satisfactory
to me that he is the identical person mentioned and described by
the name of Hemsley Emory in the Deed of Manumission above
referred to and that he was raised in Kent County
(  seal of             )            In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and
(Kent County     )            affix the seal of Kent County Court this twenty sixth
(Court Maryland)            day of January in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty
                                                                            Joseph Redue Clerk of
                                                                            Kent County Court state
                                                                               of Maryland

Issued and Recorded on the 26th Day of January 1850
                                                          By Joseph Redue Clk


    To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                          I hereby certify that a negro man named Henry Hynson
now present is the identical negro man who was sold by me to Ann
Hynson Jn and by the said Ann Hynson this day manumitted
by Deed of Manumission   The said Henry Hynson is about forty
years old about five feet nine and three quarters inches high and is
of a dark complexion                        George B Westcott
    January 29th 1850
    Henry Has a small scar under the right ear
                                                                Jose Redue Clk

Filed and recorded January 29th 1850 and certificate of Freedom issued
as follows
          State of Maryland Kent County sc
                            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 Ann Hynson of the said County
b her certain Deed of Manumission bearing date on the twenty ninth day


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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
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