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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 11   View pdf image
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State of Maryland  Caroline County to wit  Whereas heretofore to wit on the
seventh day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty eight
a certain Mary Hardcastle by Deed of Manumission duly executed acknowledged
and recorded among the Land records of Caroline County did Manumit
and set free a certain negro man named James Baynard to be free from and after
the date of the said Manumission and the said negro man named James Baynard
having made application to me for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to
the act of assembly in such Case made and provided  And whereas also upon the
oath of John Councell of Caroline County that the said negro man named
James Baynard for whom this Certificate is made is the same person mentioned
in the said Manumission I do therefore grant his said application and hereby
Certify that from his age as expressed as in the said Manumission he was
forty years of age the seventh day of March last five feet five and three
quarter inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County
of a complexion nearly black has a small scar on his forehead nearly perpendicular
extending upwards from the inner Corner of his left eyebrow
and another small scar above his right eye brow and no other notable marks
or scars that I have observed      In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
(seal)   my name and affix the public seal of my office this 18th day of
           July Anno Domini 1828                        Jo Richardson  Clk of
                         Cost $1.00 Cts                       Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline county to wit;  Whereas application hath been made to me by
a negro woman named Lydia Mackery 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 and whereas
also upon the oath of Mahala Cooper of Caroline county that the said negro woman named
Lydia Mackery was free born I do therefore grant her said application and hereby certify
that according to her own account she is thirty ^two^ years of age five feet and a quarter inches
high or thereabouts of a black complexion was born and raised in Caroline County has a
small mole under the right side of her chin a large scar of a cut on her right wrist and
no other notable marks or scars that I have observed   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
my name and affix the public seal of my office this 29th day of July anno Domini
1828                                                                        Jo Richardson  Clk of
(seal)                 
                            Cost $1.00 Cts                              Caroline County Court



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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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