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Queen Anne's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1807-1848 and 1858
Volume 854, Page 117   View pdf image
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aforesaid negro woman Teney   Given under my
hand and the seal of my Office this 8th day of May
                               Anno Domini Eighteen hundred
       [Seal]               and twenty seven
                                     Tho C Earle Rr Wills
                                                    Queen Anns County


State of Maryland Queen Anns County To wit
           Whereas application has been made to me by a
certain negro negro man named Dick or Richard
who usually calls himself Richard Thomas 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 & Testamt
of a certain John Browne duly executed on the 12.th day of
December in the year Eighteen hundred and fifteen and
proved in my Office on the 23d day of the same month and
year


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State of Maryland Queen Anns County To wit
                   Whereas application has been made to me
by a certain negro man named Dick or Richard who
calls himself Richd Thomas 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 ^persons^ whom
it doth or may concern that by the last will & Testament
of a certain John Browne duly executed on the 12th and
proved in my Office on the 23.d day of December Eighteen
hundred and fifteen a certain negro man ^named Dick^ now about
thirty one years of age five feet ten inches and three quarters
in heigth Black complexion Stout and well made a large
scar on the inner side of his right arm and near the Elbow
joint and a small scar on the wrist joint of his right arm
was manumitted and set free   His freedom to commence
when he shall have attained the age of twenty


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