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Queen Anne's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1807-1848 and 1858
Volume 854, Page 13   View pdf image
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Maryland ss  I do hereby certify that by the last will and
Testament of a certain John L Wilmer late of Queen Anns county
deceased duly executed on the eighth day of September in the
year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety four and proved
in my office on the 28.th day of October 1795 a certain negro
man named Benjamin of a mulattoish complexion five feet
eight and one half inch high about thirty six years of age
has no scars of any consequence was manumitted and set free
his freedom to commence on his ariving at the age of thirty four
years and proved by the oath of a certain Thomas Barber to
be the Identical person as mentioned in the said will
the seal
of the
orphans
Court
 In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the orphans court for Queen Anns
county this 2.nd day of April Anno Domini 1810
    Will H Nicholson Reg.r of wills for Queen Anns county


Maryland ss  I do hereby certify all persons of whom it doth
or may concern that by the last will and Testament of a certain
Sarah Tillotson late of Queen Anns county deceased duly
Executed on the tenth day of March in the year of our
Lord seventeen hundred and ninety five and proved in the
office of Register of Wills for Queen Anns county on the
first day of April seventeen hundred and ninety five "A certain
negro Man named Wilks" of a Mulattoish complexion
five feet eight inches and one half inch high about twenty
four years of age hath a scar on the temple of right side
of his head and on on the left Jaw bone and a very
remarkable one on the right arm was manumitted and
set free his freedom to commence on the first day of May
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eight
And proved by the oath of a certain Robert Emory Esq.r


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