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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 107   View pdf image
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my name and affix the public seal of my office this 29th day of
August A D. 1836     
                                                          Jo Richardson  Clk of
                               $1.00                     Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath
been made to me by a mulattoe man named Eli Grinage for a certificate
of his freedom agreeably to the acts of assembly in such cases made and
provided by which said acts free negroe's and mulattoe's are permitted to
travel out of this state upon the obtention of a certificate of being free
born and whereas also upon the oath of Matthew Driver of Caroline
County aforesaid that the said mulattoe man named Eli Grinage for
whom this certificate is made was free born; I do therefore grant his
said application and hereby certify that from his own account
he was twenty five years of age on the second day of January last
that he is five feet Eleven and one half inches high or thereabouts of a
bright mulattoe complexion born and raised in Caroline
County aforesaid and has a small scar on the inside of his left
wrist occasioned from an ulcer 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 first day of
                  September Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and thirty six
                                                             Jo Richardson  Clk of
                         Cost $1.00                        Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application
hath been made to me by a mulattoe man named William Grinage
for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the acts of assembly in
such case made and provided by which said acts free negroes
and mulattoe's are permitted to travel out of this State upon
the obtention of a certificate of being free born; And whereas
also upon the oath of Matthew Driver of Caroline County
aforesaid that the said mulattoe man named William Grinage
for whom this certificate is made was free born; I do therefore


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