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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 7   View pdf image
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she was raised in Kent County
   
    (seal of               )           In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
    (Kent County     )           my name and affix the seal of
    (Court Maryland)           Kent County Court this first day of
                                          September in the year Eighteen
                                          hundred and forty nine
                                                                Joseph Redue, Clerk
                                                                   of Kent County Court
                                                                      State of Maryland
Issued and recorded on the 1st of September 1849
                                              By Joseph Redue, Clerk


To the Clerk of Kent County Maryland
                                  I hereby certify that the bearer
hereof a negro woman named Rebecca Wright
about forty three years of age of a light complexion
was manumitted and set free by
my Brother John Hines by deed of Manumission
dated the eighth day of May Eighteen hundred
and forty nine and which said manumission
is recorded in the office of the Clerk of Kent
County Court                      George N. Hines
                                           Sept 3rd 1849

Filed and recorded September 3rd 1849 and
certificate of Freedom issued as follows
Maryland Kent County to wit
                            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 Court aforesaid that a
certain John Hines by his certain deed of
manumission bearing date on the eighth
day of May in the year Eighteen hundred
and forty nine did Manumit, liberate set free
and discharge from slavery a negro woman
named Rebecca Wright about forty three years
old I further certify that a negro woman of


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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
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