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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 111   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas heretofore to wit on the sixth day
of November Eighteen hundred and twelve a certain Thomas Duhamel of Caroline County
by a deed of Manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded among the land
records of Caroline County among others did manumit and set free a certain negro girl
named Elizabeth to be free when she should arrive to the age of sixteen years
And the said negro woman named Elizabeth having made application
to me for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the acts of assembly
in such cases made and provided:  And Whereas also upon the oath
of Eliza Atkinson of Caroline County that the said negro woman
named Elizabeth 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 from her age as
expressed in the said manumission she is now about twenty
eight years of age five feet one and a quater inches high or thereabouts
of a brown Complexion was born and raised in Caroline
County and has a scar of a cut under her left eye 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 29th day of
             September A D. 1836                  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 woman named Margaret
Duhamel for a certificate of her 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 Eliza Atkinson of
Caroline County that the said negro woman named
Margaret Duhamel for whom this certificate is made
was free born:  I do therefore grant her said application
and hereby certify that according to her own account
she was twenty one years of age on the twenty third day of
November last five feet two and three quater inches high or


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