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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 126   View pdf image
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application and hereby certify that from his own account he was twenty one years
of age about the first day of July last past five feet seven and three
quarter inches high or thereabouts born and raised in Caroline County
Complexion 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 2.d day of March A. D. 1838
                           Cost $1.00    Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court


State ^of^ Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit on the twenty third day
day of December seventeen hundred and ninety nine a certain Sarah Hardcastle
and Solomon Kenton of Caroline County by deed of Manumission duly executed acknowledged
& recorded among the Land records of Caroline County did manumit and set
free among others a negro man called Stephen to be free and at at perfect liberty on
the first day of January Eighteen hundred and seven and the said negro man
named Stephen having made application to me for a certificate of freedom agreeably
to the acts of Assembly is such case made and provided; and whereas also
upon the oath of Eliza Atkinson of Caroline County that the said negro man
Stephen for whom is this certificate is made is the same person mentioned in
said manumission I do therefore grant his said application and hereby certify
that from his own is expressed in said manumission he was fifty six years of age
on the 23d day of December last past five feet seven inches high or thereabouts
complexion nearly black born and raised in Talbot County his fore finger
on his left hand crooked at the last joint and has a scar of a cut on his
right hand between his wrist and thumb and has no other notable mark
or scars that I have observed
(seal)           In Testimony Whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the
                   public seal of my office this 9th day of March Anno Domini 1838
                                                                                 Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                           Cost $1.00                      Caroline County Courts


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas Application hath
been made to me by a negro man           Alexander Canada for a certificate
of his freedom agreeably to the acts of Assembly in such case made
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 Hugh Taylor of Caroline County that aforesaid


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