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Queen Anne's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1807-1848 and 1858
Volume 854, Page 130   View pdf image
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and three quarters of an inch in heigth three small scars
on her left arm very near each other also round black
scar on her right arm which she states was occasioned
by a burn  her form rather delicate was manumitted
and set free by the last will and Testamt of a certain
Arthur Emory duly executed on the 8th day of March
and proved in my Office on the 7.th day of April
Eighteen hundred and seven   Her freedom to commence
in twenty years from the date of the said will
Her person was identified by a certain Doct John
Davidge Emory who was the Executor of the said Arthur
                                  Given under my hand and the
       (    )                    seal of my Office this 26.th day
                                  of Augt Anno Domini 1728
                                  Tho C Earle Rr Wills
                                           for Queen Anns County
    The original is on parchment & the seal impressed
on rose coloured paper & confined by a blue ribbon


                                                                       No 19
State of Maryland Queen Anns county To wit
             whereas application has been made to me by a
certain negro woman named Betty who calls herself
Betty Cain 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 may
concern that a certain negro woman named Betty now
about 33 years of age dark complexion 5 feet 5 Inches
and a quarter in heigth a scar near the corner of her
left eye brow also a scar just above the elbow of her
right arm slender made and has lost one of her upper
fore teeth was manumitted and set free by the last will
and Testamt of a certain Philip Feddeman duly
executed on the 18.th day of July 1821 and proved in my
office on the 22d day of Jany 1822   Her freedom to
commence on the 1.st day of Jany next after the
decease of the said Philip Feddeman   Her


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