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69 Mariah Negro Certified 19 20 Martin Solomon to Negro Jacob State of Maryland Talbot County To wit I certify that James Burgess a respectable citizen of the County and State aforesaid came and proved to my satisfaction that the bearer hereof a black man who calls himself James Maxfield of a bright complexion five feet eight inches high a small scar on the back of his right hand and about twenty seven years of age now is the identical person that was manumitted by William Blake on the twenty sixth day of April Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and eighty five In Testimony &.a this 26th May 1809 JLoockerman Cl State of Maryland Talbot County to wit: I hereby Certify that Richard Gore of The said County & state came and proved to my satisfaction that the bearer hereof a ^mulatto^ black man who calls Martin Barton and who is now about twenty one years of age height five feet eleven inches high and an half high very black straight hair was born free and raised in the County & state afd In Testimony &.c this 10.th of April 1810 JLoockerman Clk |
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