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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 34   View pdf image
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was freeborn and raised in Kent County and is now about
twenty years of age         said Sarah Jane is of a black complexion
about four feet ten and a quarter inches high and has a small
scar over each eye         Witness my hand this twenty second day of May
Eighteen hundred and fifty                              J. R. Gudgeon
Filed and recorded on the 22nd day of May 1850 and a certificate
of freedom issued to the said negro Sarah Jane Scott
                                                 By Jos Redue Clk of Kt Co Cot Md


Joseph Redue Esq
                         Sir William Brown a negroe wishes to procure his
freedom passes he was born in this County and his Mother is a
free woman and always has been   You will have his papers
ready against I get to Town on wednesday next so that he may
go in the steam boat that day   I will certify to to it at the time
of the delivery                           yours &c
    Joseph Redue Esq                                 Meritt Miller
                                                                      May 20th 1850
To the Clerk of Kent County Court
                            This is to certify that a negro man named
William Brown now present and applying for a certificate of
freedom is the son of a negro woman named Mary Brown
whom I have Known for many years as a free woman and that
the said William Brown was freeborn and raised in Kent County
             witness my hand this 23rd day of May 1850
Witness J. F. Gordon                                       her
                                                                Mary + Ashley
                                                                       mark
    The said William Brown is now about twenty three years old
to the best of my Knowledge                          her
witness J. F. Gordon May 23rd 1850     Mary x Ashley
                                                                     mark
The said William Brown is five feet six and a half inches high
is of a Black complexion and has a scar from a burn on the
back of his right hand has a lump on the back of each hand
resembling meus near where they join to the wrist and has a scar
from a burn on the left arm below the elbow  Jos Redue Clk K. C. Ct Md
                                                                      23rd May 1850

Filed and recorded on the 23rd day of May 1850 and a certificate
of freedom issued to the said negro William Brown
                                        By Jos Redue Clk Kt Co Cot Md


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