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Queen Anne's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1807-1848 and 1858
Volume 854, Page 24   View pdf image
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no particular distinguishing mark was
set free by the said will at her age of
fourteen years her person Identified by
James Corkrell
                     Test Wm H Nicholson
       (seal)           Regr Wills Q A County
             Jan.y 10.th 1814


Maryland sct  I do hereby certify to whom it doth or may
concern that by the last will & Testament of Jonathan Roberts
duly executed on the twelfth day of November Seventeen
hundred and ninety six and proved in my office on the twenty
seventh day of Feby Seventeen hundred and ninety seven
a certain Negro Girl named Ruth aged about twenty eight
years four feet eleven and an half Inches high yellowish
complexion has three fingers of her right hand contracted
was manumitted & set free after the thirty first day of
December Eighteen hundred and Seven her person identified
by the Oath of Ann Kennard
                                     Test
(Seal)                                 W.m H Nicholson Reg
       May 9.th 1814            Queen Anns County


Maryland sct  I do hereby certify to whom it doth or may concern
that by the last will & Testament of Jonathan Roberts
duly executed on the twelfth day of November seventeen
hundred and ninety six and proved in my Office on the
twenty seventh day of July Seventeen hundred and ninety
seven a certain negro man named William or Bill aged
about twenty four years dark complexion five feet ten &
one fourth Inches high has two small scars above his
left elbow one on his right arm just below the Shoulder
occasioned by a burn and one other just above his right
knee occasioned by a cut was manumitted & set free after
the thirty first day of December Eighteen hundred & twelve
his person identified by the Oath of Ann Kennard
(Seal)                                          Test
                                                          Wm H Nicholson Reg
May 9th 1814                                 Queen Anns County


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