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Mr. Leg's shop prices and payment from Margaret Higgins to Samuel Meeds
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Mr. Leg's shop prices and payment from Margaret Higgins to Samuel Meeds

Costs settled, 1822
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Costs settled, 1822

Property summary of James Anderson and M. Dowdall Thompson
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Property summary of James Anderson and M. Dowdall Thompson

Commitment of payment to Dr. James Bordley
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Commitment of payment to Dr. James Bordley

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Kent County Chattel Records of Joseph and Samuel Derry (1845)

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Kent County Chattel Records - 1845

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Manumission record of Amanda Boyer, 23 years old in 1845, Kent County, MD

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Kent County Chattel Records, 1845 - listing a negro boy, age 8

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William Smith passed a slave girl as property to Edward Hadaway

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Kent County Freedom Certificate of Samuel Derry, 1849.

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Ann Reed, daughter of Araminta Butler, is manumitted in 1849

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Emmeline Boyer manumission records - from Kent County, 1840

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