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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 124   View pdf image
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State upon the obtention of a certificate of being free born and Whereas also
upon the oath of Philemon Skinner of Caroline County that the said mulattoe
man named Noah Smith 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 two years of age some time in March last past five feet five and
a half inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County of a mulattoe
Complexion and has two small scars in his left eye brown and has another
small scar of a cut on his left wrist and has 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 24.th day of October Anno Domini 1837
                                                                                           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 negro man named Alford Wright for a certificate of his
freedom agreeably to the acts of Assembly in such cases made and provided by
which said acts free negroes and mulattoes 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 Joshua Clarke of Caroline County that the said negro man named
Alford Wright 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 two years of age; the fifteenth day of October last past five feet five and
one half inches high or thereabouts born and raised in Caroline County complexion
nearly black and has no 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 4.th day of January A D 1838
                                                                               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 negro man named John Cornish for a Certificate
of his freedom agreeably to the act of Assembly in such case made and
provided by which said act free negroes and mulattoes 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 Dennis Kelley of Caroline County that the said


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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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