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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 158   View pdf image
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and several scars on the vein of the same arm occasioned by being being bled
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 thirtieth day of
                               March A. D. 1841                        Jo Richardson  Clek of
                                  Cost $1.00 cts                           Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro man named William 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 mulatto's 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 Solomon Glanden of Caroline County aforesaid that the said
negro man named William 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 is about thirty four years of age five feet eight inches ^high^
or thereabouts of a black Complexion was born in Queen Anns County and raised
in Caroline County and has a scar of a cut over his right eye and has a small
scar on his right thumb joint and has a large scar on his right leg occasioned
by the bite of a dog.  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 thirteenth day of
                            April Anno Domini 1841          Jo Richardson Clek of
                                     Cost $1.00                     Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit on the ninth
day of August eighteen hundred and twenty eight; a Certain Charles Tilden of
Caroline County by deed of manumission acknowledged and recorded among the
Land records of Caroline County did manumit and set free among others a
negro woman named Ritty (now Calling herself Louretta Flamer) to be free from
and after the first day of July Eighteen hundred and twenty nine and the said
negro woman named Ritty 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 oath of James M. Whitly of Caroline County
aforesaid that the said negro woman named Ritty for whom this Certificate is
         


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