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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 27   View pdf image
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To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                            I hereby certify that Jere Beswicks who is
now present & applying for a certificate of freedom is the identical
person mentioned by that name in a Deed of Manumission executed by
me on the 7th day of January 1850 & recorded among the records
of Kent County      witness my hand this 11th day of February 1850
Jere is 5 feet 5 inches high dark complexion with a slight scar         Henry T Jump
on the right corner of his mouth                           J Redue Clk
Filed and recorded on the 11th day of February 1850 and certificate
of Freedom issued as follows
    State of 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 Henry
T. Jump of the said County by his certain Deed of Manumission
bearing date on the seventh day of January in the year eighteen
hundred and fifty did manumit liberate set free and discharge from
slavery a negro man named Jere Beswicks born on the seventh day of
January in the year Eighteen hundred and Ten      I further certify
that a negro man now present (the bearer hereof) called and known by
the name of Jere Beswicks aged about forty years five feet five & ½ inches
high of a dark complexion and has a slight scar on the right corner of
his mouth has proved by testimony which is satisfactory to me that he is
the identical person mentioned and described by the name of Jere
Beswicks in the Deed of Manumission above referred to and that he was raised
in Kent County             In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and
(  seal of             )         affix the seal of Kent County Court this eleventh
(Kent County     )         day of February in the year eighteen hundred and fifty
(Court Maryland)                                     Joseph Redue Clerk of Kent County
                                                                        Court State of Maryland
Issued and recorded on the eleventh day of February Eighteen hundred and fifty
                                                                           By Joseph Redue Clerk


    To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                               This is to certify that John Henry Wilmer who is
now present & applying for a certificate of freedom was free born
and raised in Kent County and is now about twenty three years of
age    Witness my hand this 11th day of February 1850      Henry T Jump



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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
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