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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 137   View pdf image
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    State of Maryland; Caroline County to wit; Whereas on the Sixteenth day
of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six
a Certain James Turner of Caroline County by deed of Manumission duly
executed acknowledged and recorded among the land records of Caroline County
did Manumit and set free a certain negro woman named Judith (now calling
herself Julia Holmes) to be free from and after the last ^day^ of December Eighteen
hundred and thirty five and the said negro woman named Judith (now
calling herself Julia Holmes) having made application to me for a certificate
of her freedom agreeably to the act of Assembly in such case made; And
Whereas also upon the oath of Thomas Turner of Caroline County aforesaid
that the said negro woman named Judith (now calling herself Julia Holmes)
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 she is now about forty years of age five feet one and a half inches
or thereabouts Complexion black born and raised ^in^ Caroline County &
has a scar of a cut on her right wrist and a small scar on her forefinger
on her left hand and has another scar on her left elbow & 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 14th day of May
                A D. 1839                              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 John Webb for a Certificate of his freedom
agreeably to the acts 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 and whereas also upon
the oath of John Dillon of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro
man named John Webb 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 one years of age on the twenty seventh
day of February last past five feet four and a half inches high or thereabouts
was born and raised in Caroline County Complexion black and


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