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Queen Anne's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1807-1848 and 1858
Volume 854, Page 74   View pdf image
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74
    State of Maryland Queen Anns County
To Wit
                whereas application has been made to me
for a certificate of Freedom by a certain negro woman
named Omy commonly called Omy Willson I do therefore
Certify to all persons whom it doth or may concern
that by the last will & Testament of a certain Samuel
Y. Keene late of Queen Anns County deceased duly
executed on the first day of January eighteen hundred
& eight and proved in my office on the eighteenth
day of January in the same year a certain mulatto
woman slave named Winny & her four children were
manumitted & set free on the following conditions that
is to say whenever a certain Samuel Willson shall
pay to the Testator or his executors or administrators the
sum of four hundred dollars   which said conditions
have been complied with as may be seen by reference
to the certificate of Sarah Keene Executrix of the said
Samuel Y. Keene recorded in the Cerks office of Queen
Anns County on the 15.th day of April 1811.  The said
negro woman Omy is a bright mulatto five feet two
inches in heigth a slight scar on each wrist & one on
her right eye brow.  Her person identified by a certain
Marmaduke Goodhand ^+ who declars her to be one of the children of the said woman Winny^      Given under my hand
and seal this thirtieth day of March Eighteen
hundred & twenty two
                                              Tho C Earle Regr Wills
                                              Queen Anns County
+ Named in the will of Samuel Y Keene as aforesaid


The State of Maryland Queen Anns
couty to wit
          Whereas a certain negro Man
Named Charles has made application
to me for a certificate of Freedom
under an act of the General
Assembly of maryland passed
November session Eighteen hundred
and five  I do therefore


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