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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 74   View pdf image
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    Kent County Sct         On this 6 day of March 1855
personally appears Chester Tillison a free negro before
me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for
Kent County and made oath on the Holy Evangely of
Almighty God that he had his free papers or certificate
of freedom (granted to him by the clerk of Kent County
Court on the 8 December 1843) in a chest or box in the
granary belonging to Jacob Tome in Port Deposit Cecil
County at the time said granary & its contents were
distroyed by fire on the night of the 21s July 1854 and
that his chest and free papers among other things were
burnt up in said granary
                            Sworn to before James Graves
see act 1850 ch 66 sec 4      see manumission of
Maria Scott recorded in Liber J N G N.o 3 page 407

    To the clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County
          This is to certify that Chester Tillison a free negro
who is now present & applying for a certificate of freedom
(the first being distroyed by fire in Port Deposit
on the 21s July 1854) is the identical person who was
manumitted by Maria Scott on the 8 Dec 1843 the
said negro Chester belonged to & lived with my father
Mr Pery Wethered for several years before & after he
was free   and the said negro Chester has always been
a well disposed and trust worthy servant
March 6 1855                           John L Wethered
    Chester is about fifty years old five feet eight inches
high a scar near his left eye & a small scar on his left wrist
Filed and recorded on the 6 day of March 1855 and
certificate issued              By Jas F Gordon clk


To the clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County Md
    This is to certify that a negro man named Joseph
Miller 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


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