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Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1864
Volume 853, Page 87   View pdf image
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    Kent County sct         On this 21st June 1856 personally
appeared Thomas Chaires of Queen Anns County before
me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for Kent County
and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God
that he is acquainted with Julia Casson formerly
Julia Freeman the mother of Samuel Freeman and
Simon Freeman that the said Julia Freeman was
a free woman before the birth of her said two children
and that the said boys Sam & Simon whom this
Defendant Deponant has just now seen and whom
he identifies were born of a free woman as aforesaid
that Sam has resided in Kent County from about 8 to
9 years and Simon about from               years
                      Sworn before
                                      James Graves
Simon Joseph Freeman is five feet two inches high
black complexion has a scar on back part of his
thumb of the left hand and is now about thirty four
years of age            Samuel Thomas Freeman is five
feet one inch high black complexion and is
now thirty four years of age
Filed recorded & certificates issued June 21st 1856 by
                                                       J F Gordon clk


To the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County
       I hereby certify that a negro man named Pere
Tilghman now present and applying for a certificate
of freedom is the child of negro woman Hannah who
was manumitted by Richard S Thomas on the 19 day
of March 1814 in which manumission the children
of the said Hannah born after the date of said manumission
was to be free from & after they respectively
arrive to the age of twenty one years I now certify
that the said Perry is at this time more than twenty
one years of age and is the child of the said Hannah
The said negro Perry is now about thirty three years of age
    July 10 1856                                    H M Thomas


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