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Queen Anne's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1807-1848 and 1858
Volume 854, Page 122   View pdf image
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        this 19 day of November Anno Domini Eighteen
                                     hundred and twenty seven
       [Seal]                           Tho C Earle Rr Wills
                                                    for Queen Anns County
       See Colo E F Chambers' letter on file


                                                                         No 7
State of Maryland Queen Anns County To wit
             whereas application has been made to me by a certain
negro woman named Elisa 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 Grason duly executed
on the 26.th day of December 1805 and proved in my Office
on the 4.th day of January 1806 the issue of a certain negro
woman named Maria were manumitted and set free
when they shall respectively attain the age of twenty in years
and whereas the aforesaid negro woman Elisa who is now
five feet one inch and a quarter in heigth twenty one years
of age dark complexion a slender and delicate person
good teeth a dark spot & scar on the inside ^inner part^ of her left arm &
a smaller but similar spot and scar on the upper part of
the same arm both between the wrist and elbow joints claims
her freedom under the aforesaid clause in the will of the
said John Grason   I do therefore further certify that a certain
Wm Grason of Queen Anns County has upon his Oath declared
the above discribed woman named Elisa to
be one of the issue of negro Maria mentioned in the will
of the aforesaid John Grason and that she has attained
the age of twenty one years   Given under my hand and
                                  the seal of my Office this 9.th
          [Seal]               day of Jany 1828
                                                Tho C Earle Rr Wills
                                                      for Queen Anns County


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