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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 146   View pdf image
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State of Maryland caroline county to wit;  Whereas on the twenty third day of
December seventeen hundred and ninety nine Sarah Hardcastle and Solomon
Kenton of Caroline county by deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged
and recorded amongst the land records of Caroline county did manumit and
set free a certain negro woman named Maria to be free on the first day of
January Eighteen hundred and fourteen and the said negro woman named
Maria 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 testimony of John Bradley of Caroline County that the said negro woman
named Maria for whom this certificate is made is the same person mentioned
in the said manumission.  I do therefore grant her said application and hereby
Certify that the said negro woman named maria is thirty three years of age
or thereabouts the twenty third day of December 1821 she is about five feet
three and three quarter inches high of a molatto complexion was born and
raised in Caroline County has a scar on the back of her right arm between
the shoulder & elbow joint nearly the size of half a dollar occasioned
by a burn another large scar on the out side of her right leg occasioned
by a burn and a large natural mark on the top of her left foot near
the toe joints and no other remarkable scars or marks that I have
observed      In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name
                and affix the public seal of my office this 16th day of July
    (seal)   Anno Domini 1822                           Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                        Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline county to wit; Whereas on twenty third
day of December seventeen hundred and ninety nine Sarah Hardcastle
and Solomon Kenton of Caroline County by deed of manumission duly executed
acknowledged and recorded amongst the land records of Caroline county
did manumit and set free a certain negro woman named Henny to be
free on the first day of January Eighteen hundred and twenty two and the
said negro woman named Henny 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 temony of John Bradly
of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Henny for whom this
Certificate is made is the same person mentioned in the said manumission
I do therefore grant her said application and hereby certify that the
said negro woman named Henny is twenty five years of age or thereabouts
the twenty third day of December 1821 she is about five feet one and a
half inches high of a dark molatto complexion was born and raised
in Caroline County has a small natural mark on her forehead
which she calls a black berry   a black mole on the Ball of
her thumb of her right hand and a small scar occasioned by a
Cut by a knife on her left cheek and no other remarkable scars
or marks that I have observed   In Testimony whereof I hereto
            subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my office
(seal)   this 16th day of July Anno Domini 1822      Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline
                                                                                  County Court



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