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Queen Anne's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1807-1848 and 1858
Volume 854, Page 113   View pdf image
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Seal of my Office this 21.st day of February
                            Anno Domini Eighteen hundred
                            and twenty seven
                                     Tho C Earle Rr Wills
                                                 for Queen Anns County


State of Maryland Queen Anns County To wit
             Whereas application has been made to me by
a certain negro woman named Rose for a certificate
of freedom under an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland
passed at November Session 1805   I do therefore
certify to all whom it doth or may concern that by the
last will and Testament of a certain Benjamin Forman
duly executed on the 20th day of August 1815 and proved
in my Office on the 6.th day of January 1816 a certain
negro woman named Rose supposed at this time
to be between forty and fifty years of age complexion
black five feet and half an Inch in heigth a scar
on her right Eye brow large flat nose has lost nearly
all her teeth and her left foot so much injured as to
have nearly lost one of her toes was manumitted and
set free   Her freedom to commence on the 1.st day of Jany
1824   Her person identified by a certain Sally Ann
Meeds one of the Legatees of the aforesaid Benja Foreman
                            Given under my hand and the Seal
                            of my Office this 2d day of April
                            Anno Domini 1827
                                         Tho C Earle Rr Wills
                                                    for Queen Anns County


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