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Queen Anne's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1807-1848 and 1858
Volume 854, Page 116   View pdf image
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    Well together with ^the^ following description of his person
negro Bill mentioned in the foregoing Extract was identified
by Margaret Baker of Talbot County he is five feet two &
and an half Inches high very black and two of the Toes
on the left foot much shorter than the others apparently
a natural defect              Tho.s C Earle R.r Wills
                                                       Queen Anns County

State of Maryland   Queen Anns County To wit
                whereas application has been made to me
by a certain negro man named Elisha for a certificate
of freedom under an Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland passed at Nov Session 1805   I do therefore
certify to all persons who it doth of may concern that
the last will and Testament of a certain Jacob Barnes proved
in my Office on the 10th day of Dec 1799 contains the
following clause
          " My will is that my negro man Cesar and
Jacob be free at the expiration of eight years from the
1.st day of Jany next after this will becomes of force and
that my negro woman Teney be free at the expiration
of ten years from the said 1.st day of Jany next after this
will becomes of force and that my negro Boy James son
of said Teney be free at the expiration of twenty seven
years from the 1.st day of January as aforesaid and my
will is that the issue of the said negro woman Teney which
may be born during her servitude and their issue born
during their servitude shall severally serve until they
respectively arrive at the age of twenty five "
                   Negro Man Elisha above mentioned is of a
dark complexion five feet 8¾ Inches in heigth a scar
on the cap of each knee two small scars on his left arm
stated to have been occasioned by the bite of a dog and
a good set of teeth and is identified by the Oath of a certain
Isaac Winchester to be one of the issue of the


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