clear space clear space clear space white space
A
 r c h i v e s   o f   M a r y l a n d   O n l i n e
  Maryland State Archives | Index | Help | Search search for:
clear space
white space
Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 59   View pdf image
 Jump to  
   << PREVIOUS  NEXT >>
clear space clear space clear space white space
                                                    59

woman named Mary Hawkins for whom this certificate is made was free
born.  I do therefore grant her said application and hereby certify that from her
own account she was forty five years of age the fourth day of February last
five feet two and three quarter inches high or thereabouts of a dark mulatto
complexion was born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar of a burn
nearly on the middle of her forehead and no other notable marks or scars
that I have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix this
            public seal of my office this 23d day of April Anno Domini 1832
Cost $1.00 Cts                                               Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                       Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me by
a mulatto man named John Fisher for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the act of
assembly in such case made and provided by which said act 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 William Whitely of Caroline County that the said mulatto
man named John Fisher 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 was twenty
four years of age some time in this month five feet five and a quarter inches high or
thereabouts of a dark mulatto complexion was born and raised in Caroline County
and has a scar of a cut near the outer corner of his left eye and another scar of a cut on his
left cheek below the outer corner of his left eye and 2 other scars on his left arm between
the wrist and elbow and another scar of a cut between the hand joints of his fore finger
and thumb and 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 24th day of April Anne Domini 1832
        Cost $1.00 cts                                                               Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                                              Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; whereas heretofore to wit; on the twenty fifth day
of February in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred a certain Caleb Clark 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 Rachel to be free from
and after the first day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty
and the said negro woman named Rachel having made application to me for a


  		clear space
clear space
white space

Please view image to verify text. To report an error, please contact us.
Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 59   View pdf image
 Jump to  
   << PREVIOUS  NEXT >>


This web site is presented for reference purposes under the doctrine of fair use. When this material is used, in whole or in part, proper citation and credit must be attributed to the Maryland State Archives. PLEASE NOTE: The site may contain material from other sources which may be under copyright. Rights assessment, and full originating source citation, is the responsibility of the user.

Tell Us What You Think About the Maryland State Archives Website!

An Archives of Maryland electronic publication.
For information contact mdlegal@mdarchives.state.md.us.

©Copyright  August 17, 2024
Maryland State Archives