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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 142   View pdf image
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five feet high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County and of a
mulattoe complexion and has a scar of a burn on the top of her head and has
several other small scars on her left arm near the elbow joint and has no
other notable marks or scars that I have observed
(seal)                 In Testimony Whereof I hereto subscribe my name and
                         Afix the public seal of my Office this 8th day of July Anno
                         Domini 1839                                    Jo Richardson Clk of
                               Cost $1.00                                 Caroline County Courts


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas on the eleventh day of
July in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty nine a certain John Nicols of
the County and State aforesaid by deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged
and recorded among the Land records of Caroline County aforesaid did manumit
and set free a Certain negro man named Adam Baynard to be be free and
at perfect liberty from the date of the said manumission; And the said negro
man named Adam Baynard having made application to me to for a certificate
of his freedom agreeably to the act of Assembly in such case made and provided
And Whereas also upon the oath of said John Nicols of Caroline County aforesaid
the said negro man named Adam Baynard for whom this Certificate is made
is the same person mentioned in the said manumission I do therefore grant
his said application and hereby Certify that from his age expressed in the
said manumission he is about thirty two years of age five feet six inches high
or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County complexion Black &
has a small scar on the back of his left hand two other small scars on his
left arm and another small scar of a cut on the inside of his right leg just
above his ancle 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 11th day of July Anno Domini 1839
                                                                                  Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                  Cost $1.00                              Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit on
the thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty nine a certain William Potter 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


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