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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 169   View pdf image
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her mothers account she was sixteen years of age some time in the Month of September
last past five feet three inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline
County Complexion dark brown and has a large scar of a burn on her right arm near
the elbow joint and two other small scars on her left and hear the elbow joint
and has no other notable mark or scar that I have observed
(seal)                          In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and
                                  affix the public seal of my office this 13th day of June
                                  Anno Domini 1842            Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                  Cost $1.00                        Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro man named Stephen Wright for a certificate of his
freedom agreeably to the acts of assembly in such cases made and provided
by which said acts free negroes and mulattoes are permitted to travel out of
this state upon the obtention of a Certificate of being free born; And Whereas
also upon the Oath of Co.l William Potter of Caroline County aforesaid that the
said negro woman named Stephen Wright for whom this Certificate is made was
free born I do therefore grant his said application and hereby Certify that
from his own account he is now about twenty five years of age five feet
nine inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County
Complexion black and has a small scar of a cut on the left side of
his upper lip and has no other notable marks or scars that I have observed
(seal)        In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the
                public seal of my office this 16th day of June Anno Domini 1842
                                                                            Jo Richardson  Clk of
                               Cost $1.00                           Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit on the thirteenth
day of February Eighteen hundred and eight a certain John Bradley of Caroline
County by deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded among
the land records of Caroline County did manumit and set free a certain negro
woman named Dark to be free from and after the first day of January Eighteen
hundred and fifteen reserving to himself ^a right and power over the increase of said negro woman Dark during^ the term of her servitude being males
until such male shall respectively attain the age of thirty years; And
application being made to me by Jefferson Jackson (being one of the issue
of the aforesaid Dark) for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the act


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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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