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155 to travel out of this State upon the obtention of a Certificate of being free born And whereas also upon the oath of Joshua Clarke of Caroline County Aforesaid that the said negro woman named Rachel Stanford for whom this Certificate is made was free born; I do therefore grant her said Application and hereby certify that from her own accounts she is now about forty years of age five feet and one half inch high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid and of a dark brown Complexion and has a large scar of a burn on her left arm just above the elbow joint and has no other notable marks or scar that I have observed (seal) In Testimony Whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my office this seventh day of November Anno Domini 1840 Jo Richardson Clk of Cost $1.00 Caroline County Court State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; whereas on the twelfth day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty eight a certain Jacob C Willson 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 boy called Henry Holmes to be free from and after the nineteenth day of October EIghteen hundred and forty; And whereas the said negro man named Henry Holmes having made application to me for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the acts of Assembly in such case made and provided; And Whereas also upon the oath of Saulsbury Corkran of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro man named Henry Holmes 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 as expressed in said manumission he was twenty one years of age on the nineteenth day of October last past five feet three inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County Complexion nearly black and has a scar of a cut across the first joint of his left fore finger and another small scar just between his eye brows 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 1st day of January A. D. 1841 Jo Richardson Clek of Cost $1.00 Caroline County Court |
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