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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit: Whereas George Washington Shepard hath made application to me for a Certificate of his freedom agreeably to law: and whereas on the oath of Jacob Morgan has been proven that said George Washington Shepard was free born I do therefore grant this Certificate: He is now about twenty five years of age five feet eight and one quarter inches high or thereabouts of a black Complexion was born and raised in Caroline County & has no notable marks or scars that I have observed. In Testimony whereof I hereunto Subscribe my name and affix the Seal of the (Seal) Circuit Court for Caroline County this Seventh day of July Anno Domini Eighteen Hundred & Sixty Robert J Jump Clk of the Circuit Court for Caroline County State of Maryland Caroline County to wit: Whereas Isaac Harriss hath made application to me for a Certificate of his freedom agreeably to law: And whereas on the Oath of WIlliam E. Liden hath been proven that said Isaac Harriss was free born. I do therefore grant this Certificate: He is now about twenty two years of age five feet five inches high or thereabout of a black Complexion was born and raised in the County and State aforesaid & has no notable marks or scars that I have observed (seal) In Testimony Whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of the Circuit Court for Caroline County the Eleventh day of July Anno Domini Eighteen Hundred and sixty Robert J Jump Clk of the Circuit Court for Caroline County |
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