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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 29   View pdf image
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the year eighteen hundred and forty nine did manumit liberate set free
and discharge from slavery a mulatto woman named Mary Freeman
born on the twenty first day of September in the year Eighteen hundred
and twenty one      I further certify that a mulatto woman now present
(the bearer hereof) called and known by the name of Mary Freeman
aged about twenty eight years five feet & a half inch high of a very
light complexion and has a small scar on the left eye lid has proved
by testimony which is satisfactory to me that she is the identical person
mentioned and described by the name of Mary Freeman in the Deed of
Manumission above referred to and that she 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
(Court Maryland)         fifth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred
                                    and fifty                                    Joseph Redue Clerk of
                                                                                  Kent County Court State of Maryland

Issued and recorded on the 25th day of February 1850
                                                       By Joseph Redue Clerk


    To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                           I hereby certify that a negro man named John
Tilghman now about twenty four years old and who is now present
applying for a certificate of freedom was born free and raised
in Kent County   John has a slight scar on the right cheek and
a small one about the centre of his forehead and is of a black
complexion and is five feet 3¾ inches high         John B. Parrott
                                                                March 2nd 1850

Filed and recorded on the 2nd day of March 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 Tilghman aged about twenty four years
five feet three and three fourths inches high of a Black complexion
with a slight scar on the right cheek and a small one about the Centre of his
forehead was born free and raised in Kent County


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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
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