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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 162   View pdf image
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the oath of Jacob Faulkner of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro man
named Philip Johnson 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 twenty three years of age some time in this month five feet five
inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid
Complexion black and has a small scar above his left eye another between his
left eye and ear and another on this left wrist joint and has no other notable
marks or scars that I have observed        In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
(seal)               my name and affix the public seal of my office this thirteenth
                       day of September A D. 1841            Jo Richardson Clk of
                                  Cost $1.00                            Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas heretofore to wit on the
thirtieth day of May Eighteen hundred and thirty two a certain James Sangston
of Caroline County by deed of manumission duly acknowledged and recorded
among the land records of Caroline County did manumit and set free among
others a negro woman named Charlotte wife of Richard Sharp negro and
the said negro woman named Charlotte 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 William R Sangston
of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro woman named Charlotte
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 about thirty five
years of age on the thirteenth day of May last past five feet high or thereabouts
was born and raised in Caroline County Complexion black and
her middle finger on her left hand is crippled occasioned by a gathering
and has no other notable mark or scar that I have observed  In Testimony
whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my office
(Seal)                  this 13th day of September A. D. 1841
                                                                                   Jos Richardson Clk
                               Cost $1.00                              of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit Whereas application hath been made to me
by a negro man named Henry Atkinson for a certificate of his freed agreeably
to the acts of Assembly in such case made and provided by which said


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