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182 notable mark or scar that I have observed. In Testimony whereof I (seal) hereto subscribe my name & affix the public seal of my office this 1st day of November Anno Domini 1825 Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court Cost 50 Cts State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me by a coloured woman named Eliza Jackson for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the Act of assembly in such case made and provided by which said Act free negroes and molattoes are permitted to travel out of this state upon the Obtention of a Certificate of being free born And whereas also upon the Testimony of William Hopkins of Caroline County that the said coloured woman named Eliza Jackson for whom this Certificate is made was free born. I do therefore grant her said application and hereby certify that she is five feet three and a half inches high or thereabouts says she will be twenty three years of age in June next of a dark molatto complexion was born and raised in Caroline County & has no notable mark or scar that I have discovered In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the public seal of my office this 11th day of November (seal) Anno Domini 1825 Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court Cost 50 cts State of Maryland Caroline county to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit; On the Fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty a certain Charles Hubbard of Caroline County by Deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded among the Land records of Caroline County did manumit and set free a certain molatto woman named Cenith to be free and at perfect liberty from and after the date of the said manumission and the said negro woman named Cenith 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 Rebecca Hubbard of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Cenith is the same negro woman mentioned in the said manumission |
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