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Queen Anne's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1807-1848 and 1858
Volume 854, Page 120   View pdf image
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                                                                                120

Sliney duly executed on the 8th day of May and proved in
my Office on the 15.th day of June in the year Eighteen hundred
and five   a certain negro woman named Anna (now
about thirty years of age complexion black five feet three
inches and a quarter in height a scar just below the cap of
the left knee ^and^ a small scar on her right breast both of which
she states were occasioned by a burn) was manumitted and
set free   Her freedom to commence when she shall have attained
the age of thirty years   Her person identified by the Oath
of a certain Rebecca Ringgold formerly Rebecca Sliney
and Executrix of the last will and Testament of the said
Ferdinand Sliney dec.d      Given under my hand and
                                  the seal of my Office this 10.th day
                                  of September Anno Domini Eighteen
       [Seal]                  hundred and twenty seven
                                     Tho C Earle Rr Wills
                                                   for Queen Anns County
       NB   The original of the above certificate is on
Parchment the seal impressed on rose paper & attached by a piece
of common Tape


                                                                         No 5
State of Maryland Queen Anns County To wit
             whereas application has been made to me
by a certain negro man named Jim who calls himself
James Price 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 and Testament
of a certain James Duhamel duly executed on the 20.th
day of Augt 1816 and proved in my Office on the 29th day
of Sept 1817 a certain negro man named Jim now
about forty years of age five feet 1¾ Inches in heigth
dark complexion a large scar on his left arm just below
the Elbow joint & a considerable scar on his left shin
was manumitted and set free   His freedom to commence


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