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130 County aforesaid; that the said negro man named Henry Mackery for whom this certificate is 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 on the twenty sixth day of October last past five feet seven inches or thereabouts complexion black born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar of a cut on the calf of his left leg and has no other 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 3.d day of November 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 woman named Maria Holiday for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the act of Assembly in such case 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 that whereas also upon the oath of John Saulsbury of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro woman named Maria Holiday for whom this certificate is made was free born; I do therefore grant her said application and hereby certify that from her account she is about twenty five years of age five feet six and three quarter inches high or thereabouts of a black complexion born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar of a burn on the right side of her breast or neck and a natural mark on the under part of her left arm near the armpit 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 29.th day of November A. D. 1838 Jo Richardson Clk of Cost $1.00 Caroline County COurt State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit; on the second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine a certain William Potter by deed of manumission duly executed and acknowledged and recorded among the Land records of Caroline County did manumit and set free a certain negro man named |
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