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Prince George's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1829
Volume 762, Page 109   View pdf image
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       left side of his neck is a free man and became
       entitled to his freedom by a deed of manumission
       bearing date the twenty second day
       of January eighteen hundred and nineteen
       from Richard D Hall and duly recorded
       in my office

                   In testimony whereof I hereto
                   subscribe my name and
       (seal)    affix the Seal of Prince Georges
                   County Court this 17.th day of
                   May 1819
                               Aquila Beall Clk


       I hereby certify that the bearer
       hereof a negro Girl of dark complexion
       about 5 feet 3 inches high no visible
       scars about 21 years of age who calls
       herself Jane Dodson is the free &
       reputed Daughter of John Dodson &
       Marjary his wife free people of colour
       and was raised in P. G. County by her
       Father & mother & consequently came
       by her freedom by birth  In Testimony &
       certificate granted 7.th June 1819


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