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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 161   View pdf image
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this state upon the obtention of a certificate of being free born, And whereas
also upon the oath of Jesse D Hicks of Caroline County aforesaid that the said
mulatto woman named Lucretia Hooper for whom this Certificate ^is made^ was free born;
I do therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify that from her own
account she is now about thirty five years of age five feet six inches high or
thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid and of a mulatto
Complexion and her little finger on each hand crook'd inward and has no
other notable marks or scars that I have observed
(seal)                    In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name &
                            affix the Public seal of my office this 7.th day of June
                            Anno Domini 1841                  Jo Richardson  Clek of
                                        Cost $1.00                     Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro man named Wing Jefferson Johns 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 Govut C Case of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro man
named Wing Jefferson Johns 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 two years of age on the ninth day of May last past five
feet five and a half inches high or thereabouts Complexion nearly black was born
and raised in Caroline County aforesaid and has a large scar on the right side
of his neck near the collar bone 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
                             July A. D. 1841                       Jo Richardson Clek of
                                     Cost $1.00                        Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made
to me by a negro man named Philip Johnson for a certificate of his freedom
agreeably to the acts of assembly in such case made and provided by which said
acts free negroe's and mulattoe's are permitted to travel out of this state upon
the obtention of a certificate of being free born; and whereas also upon


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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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