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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 71   View pdf image
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and has an injury on the fore finger & thumb of the left hand
Filed and recorded on the 13 day of October 1854 and
certificate issued                     By James F Gordon clk


To the clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County   This is
to certify that a negro girl named Deborah Graves now
present and applying for a certificate of freedom was
born of a free woman and raised in Kent County and
is now about thirty years of age
Oct 21 1854                                    Wm J Wilkins
    Deborah is five feet one and a half inches high and
has an injury on the fourth finger of each hand of a
light complexion
    Filed and recorded on the 21s day of October 1854 and
certificate issued                     By James F Gordon clk


To the clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County Md
    This is to certify that George Anna Bowser the bearer
hereof is the identical negro girl manumitted by John
Bowser her father on the 7 day of August 1854 to be free
from the date of said manumission
October 30 1854                     Anna M L Earle
    George Anna is five feet four inches high of a light
complexion with a scar over the left eye caused by a
burn      seventeen years & nine months of age
Filed and recorded on the 30 day of October 1854 and
certificate issued               By James F Gordon clk


To the clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County
    This is to certify    a negro woman now present and
applying for a certificate of freedom named Sally Wilson
is the identical negro woman manumitted by Joseph
Howard on the 15 day of May 1851 to be free from date
of manumission then about thirty years of age
       Witness                           Charles Tilden
Jos N Gordon Jr               December 26 1854
    Sally Wilson is five feet three & a half inches high


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