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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 28   View pdf image
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John Henry Wilmer is 5 feet 7¼ inches high of Dark complexion
(no scars)                                                      Jos Redue Clk

Filed and recorded on the 11th day of February 1850 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 hath been proved
by testimony which is satisfactory to me that the bearer hereof a negro
man named John Henry Wilmer aged about Twenty three years five
feet seven & ¼ inches high of a dark complexion was born free and
raised in Kent County
(  seal of             )         In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name
(Kent County     )         and affix the seal of Kent County Court this eleventh
(Court Maryland)         day of February in the year eighteen hundred and
                                    fifty                                    Joseph Redue Clerk of
                                                                               Kent County Court Maryland
Issued and recorded on the 11th day of February 1850
                                                           By Joseph Redue Clerk


    To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                   This is to certify that a mulatto woman called Mary
Freeman now present & applying for a certificate of freedom
is the identical person mentioned in a Deed of Manumission executed
on the 27th day of Dec 1849 by Miss Lavinia Hanson and filed
in the Clerks office of Kent County Court
                                                                J. F. Gordon
                                                                   February 25th 1850
Mary is about 28 years of age   very light complexion 5 feet
& a half inch high & has a small scar on the left eye lid
                                                       Joseph Redue Clk K. C. Ct

Filed and recorded on the 25th 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 Lavinia Hanson of the said County by her certain
Deed of Manumission bearing date on the Twenty seventh day of December in



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