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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 157   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro man named Emanuel Taylor for a certificate of his
freedom agreeably to the act 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 Edward White of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro man
named Emanuel Taylor 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 years of age on the eleventh day of May last past five feet five
and a half inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County
complexion nearly black and has a scar of a cut under his left eye 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 twenty fifth
                               day of February Anno Domini 1841    Jo Richardson  Clek of
                                                                                        Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit on the second
day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen a
certain James Sangston ^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 negro girl named Lovice (now calling herself Lovice Smith) when she should
arrive to the age of thirty years  And the said negro woman named Lovice
having made application to me for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the
act of assembly in such case made and provided; And whereas also upon the affirmation
of Batchelder G. Chance of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro
woman named Lovice 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
years of age on the first day of January last five feet two and a half inches
high or thereabouts of a dark mulatto complexion was born and raised in
Caroline County and has a scar of a burn crosswise on her right wrist another
scar longitudinally on the thick part of her right arm and two black lumps
with a scar between them on the top of the same arm a little above the elbow


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