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Caroline County Circuit Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1857-1864
Volume 835, Page 5   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:   Whereas heretofore to wit
on the twelvth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred
and fifty Seven a certain John Nicols of Saint Paul of Ramsey
County Teritory of Minnisota 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 Margaret to be free on the first day of January
Eighteen hundred and fifty eight and whereas application hath
been made to me by the said Margaret Downs for a certificate
of her freedom agreeably to the acts of Assembly in such case
made and provided   and whereas also upon the oath of
James H. Fountain that the said negro woman named Margaret
Downs is the same woman mentioned in said Manumission
and that she is now free   I do therefore grant this certificate and
hereby certify that from her own account she is now about thirty
one years of age five feet & three inches high or thereabout of a molatto
complexion and has a mark on her right Rist & is (natural)
and has no other that I have observed
    (Seal)               In Testimony whereof I hereunto Subscribe
                            my name and affix the Seal of the Circuit
                            Court for Caroline County this 9th day of
                            January Anno Domini 1858
                                              Robert J Jump Clerk


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