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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 79   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas at a County Court begun and held at
Denton in and for Caroline County on the first monday of March in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and twenty one a certain negro woman named Louiza by Judgment
of the same Court recovered Judgment of her freedom of a certain John Stevens of
Caroline County; and whereas also upon the oath of John W. Vaux of Caroline County that
the said negro woman named Louiza for whom this certificate is made is the same woman
named as having recovered Judgment of her freedom as aforesaid; I do therefore grant her said
application and hereby certify that from her own account she is in the twenty fifth year of
her age four feet eleven and one quarter inches high or thereabouts has a large scar of a burn
on the inside of her left wrist and hand was born and raised in Caroline County of a
black complexion 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 12th day of August A. D. 1833
Cost $1.00                                                                                 Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                                                   Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit on the twenty
ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two a
certain John Shepherd of Caroline County by Deed of Manumission duly executed
acknowledged and recorded among the Land records of Caroline County aforesaid
did manumit and set free amongst others a negro woman named Hannah Chace
to be free from and after the twenty ninth day of June in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and twenty seven and the said negro woman named Hannah
Chace having made application to me for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the
act of assembly in such case made and provided and whereas also upon the oath
of Eliza Bullock of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Hannah
Chace is the same person mentioned in the said manumission I do therefore grant
her said application and hereby certify that from her own account she is supposed
to be about thirty five years of age five feet and one quarter of an inch high or thereabouts
of a black complexion was born and raised in Caroline County has a small scar
of a cut obliquely across her left eyebrow and another small scar horizontally
above the outer corner of her right eye and a large scar of a burn on her left foot
and has no other notable marks or scars that I have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the


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