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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 55   View pdf image
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Spencer Young wishes to obtain his freedom papers he is
about five feet nine or ten inches high and is of a light complexion
I have know his parents ever since I was a very
small boy and knew his grand mother mother of his mother
ever since I could recollect they have always borne the name
of free negroes Spencers Father says he was twenty five years
old on the 16 of this month there cannot be the least doubt
of his being free born and twenty one years of age
                                   yrs Respt         Cornelius T Scott
I know the bearer to be the identical negro described above
                                                          E Couch
    Filed and recorded on the 21s day of September 1852 and
certificate issued                              By James F Gordon clk


I hereby certify that Mary Jane Denby the bearer was born
free & raised in Kent County      Witness my hand the 23d
day of September 1852                    Temperance Usilton
aged about twenty years five feet two and one half inches
high dark complexion
       Filed and recorded on the 23d day of September 1852 and
certificate issued                              By James F Gordon clk


James F Gordon Esq clk of Circuit Court Kent County Dliv
    The bearer of this note Julietta Caulk is the daughter of Joshua
& Martha Caulk and free born according to the best of
knowledge & belief and as such entitled to the usual freedom
papers or pass                                    Hugh Wallis
    Julietta is five feet three inches high dark complexion
about eighteen years of age & has a scar on the back of the
right hand & one on the left arm
       Filed and recorded on the 23d day of September 1852 and
certificate issued                              By James F Gordon clk


The bearer named Violet is the daughter of a coloured
woman named Dinah whom I manumitted with her
children by a deed recorded in the Clerks office of Kent
County Md at some time between 1819 and 1824 she is


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