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153 marks or scars that I observed (seal) In Testimony Whereof I hereto subscribe my name and Affix the public seal of my office this 26th day of August A. D. 1840 Jo Richardson Clek of Cost $1.00 Caroline County Court State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas on the twenty ninth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and twenty a certain Samuel Hardcastle of Caroline 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 woman named Sintha to be free from and after the twenty ninth day of March Eighteen hundred and forty And whereas the said negro woman named Sintha 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 Thomas M Wood of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro woman named Sintha 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 from her age expressed in said manumission she was thirty five years of age in March last past five feet two and one half inches or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County Complexion black and has a large scar of a cut over her right eye and just in the edge of the wool ^or hair^ on her head and two other scars occasioned by the bite of a dog on her right arm 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 15.th day of september Anno Domini 1840 Jo Richardson Clek of Cost $1.00 cts Caroline County Court State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit; on the second day of June Eighteen hundred and two a certain Charles Blair of Caroline County by deed of Manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded among the land records of Caroline County did manumit and set free (among others) a certain negro woman named Henny and her issue if males when they should attain the age of twenty five years; And Whereas Joshua Webb negro being the issue of the aforesaid Henny having made application to me for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such cases made and provided; And Whereas also upon the oath |
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