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149 the obtention of a certificate of being free born And Whereas also upon the affirmation of Elisha Willson of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro woman named Annett Mackery for whom this certificate is made was free born, I do therefore grant his said application and hereby certify that from her own account she was eighteen years of age on the twelfth day of January last past five feet and one inch high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County Complexion black and has a scar of a cut just over her left eye another small scar under her left ear and another scar of a cut near the end of her little finger on her left hand 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 14.th day of May Anno Domini 1840 Jo Richardson Clk of Cost $1.00 Caroline County Court State of Maryland Caroline County to wit Whereas heretofore to wit; on the twenty ninth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight a certain John Hardesty of Caroline COunty and state aforesaid by deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded among the land record books of Caroline County Aforesaid did manumit and set free a certain negro woman named Harriett Primrose to be free and at perfect liberty when She should attain the age of thirty seven years; and the said negro woman named Harriett Primrose having made Application to me for a Certificate of her freedom agreeably to the acts of Assembly in such case made and provided. And Whereas also upon the oath of Josiah Eaton of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro woman named Harriett Primrose 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 from her age as expressed in the said Manumission she was thirty seven years of age on the tenth day of October Eighteen Hundred and thirty eight four feet nine and three quarter inches high or thereabouts was born in Caroline and raised in Queen Anns Counties; Complexion dark mulattoe and has a flesh mole on the back of her neck ^nearly^ between her shoulders and has no other notable marks or scars that I have observed In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the public (seal) seal of my office this 19th day of May A D. 1840 Jo Richardson Clk of Cost $1.00 Caroline County Court |
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