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Queen Anne's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1807-1848 and 1858
Volume 854, Page 109   View pdf image
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109

Given under my hand & the Seal of my Office
                         this 24.th day of July Anno Domini
                         Eighteen hundred and twenty
          [Seal]      six
                               Tho C Earle Rr Wills
                                        Queen Anns County
The description of negro Elbert
was taken by Tho C Earle Rr Wills


State of Maryland Queen Anns County To wit
                      whereas application has been made to
me by a certain negro man named Mordecai Moore
for a certificate of freedom under and Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland passed at November Session
1805      I do therefore certify to all persons whom it doth
or may concern that by the last Will and Testament
of a certain William Hemsley duly executed on the
seventh day of May Eighteen hundred and twenty one
and proved in my Office on the twenty fifth day of
November Eighteen hundred and twenty five a
certain negro man named Mordecai Moore aged
about thirty seven years of a dark complexion five feet
eight inches and three quarters in height well made
has a good set of teeth a slight scar on the middle finger
of his left hand and a very large scar on his left thigh
which he states was occasioned by a cut with a scythe was
manumitted and set free  His freedom to commence in
one year after the decease of the said William Hemsley
      The said Mordecai Moore being well known to the
Register of Wills whose name is hereto subscribed any
further evidence to identify him was deemed unnecessary
                             Given under my hand and the
       [Seal]             Seal of my Office this 20th day of
                             November Anno Domini Eighteen
                             hundred and twenty six
                                        Tho C Earle Rr Wills
                                              for Queen Anns County


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