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41 that a negro woman Martha and sometimes called Martha Ann now present and applying for a certificate of freedom is the identical negro named and mentioned in a deed of manumission executed by Samuel G. Osborn on the sixth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty seven and which was duly recorded in Liber T. W. No 3 pages 729 and 729 one of the record books of Kent County In said deed of manumission she is stated to be then two years old as informed by Thomas H. Osborn to whom the said negro was allotted in the distribution of the negroes of late Samuel G. Osborn J. B. Ricaud 1st Nov 1850 said negro woman Martha is about twenty five years old is about four feet ten inches high is of a light complexion and has no particular mark or scar visible Jos Redue Clk Filed and recorded on 1st day of November 1850 and a certificate of Freedom issued to the said negro woman Martha otherwise called Martha Ann By Jos Redue Clk Kt Co Ct Md To the Clerk of Kent County Court I hereby certify that a negro man named Ezekiel Price now present and applying for a certificate of Freedom is the identical negro man who was manumitted and set free by Rebecca Price also a free negro by a deed of manumission bearing date this 26th day of December 1850 Filed and recorded in the office of the Clerk of Kent County said negro Ezekiel Price is about forty three years old is of black complexion is about five feet seven and a half inches high has a mark from a cut on the right side extending downwards and was raised in Kent County George B. Ford 26th Dec 1850 Filed and recorded on the 26th day of December 1850 and a certificate of Freedom issued to the said negro man Ezekiel Price By Jos Redue Clk Kt Co Ct Md To the Clerk of Kent County Court I hereby certify that Arthur Sceny who is now present & applying for a certificate of freedom was free born and raised in Kent County & is now about twenty two years of age witness my hand this 30th Dec 1850 Levin Usilton Arthur is 5 feet 9 Inches high dark complexion no scars Jos Redue Clk Filed and recorded on the 30th day of December 1850 and a certificate |
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