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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 165   View pdf image
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twenty second day of May last past five feet and one inch high or thereabouts was born
and raised in Caroline County afsd and of a black complexion and has no notable
mark or scar that I have observed
(Seal)                 In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public
                         seal of my office this 6.th day of December A D
                         1841                                          Jo Richardson,  Clk of
                                     Cost 1:00                        Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me by
a mulatto man named Benjamine Downes for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the
acts 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 Jonathan Nicols of Caroline
County aforesaid that the said mulatto man named Benjamine Downes 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 seven years of age
on the twenty fifth day of December last past six feet and three quarter of an
inch high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County Complexion
Mulatto and has a scar of a cut on the back of his right hand and another scar
of a cut just above the instep on his left leg and his face scared by the small
pox and has no other notable marks or scars that I have observed, In Testimony
(Seal)                   whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal
                            of my office this 16th day of December Eighteen hundred and
                            forty one                                           Jo Richardson, Clk
                            Cost $1:00                                          Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit, Whereas heretofore to wit on the first day of
January in the year eighteen hundred and forty two a Certain William Potter of Caroline County
deed of of manumission duly acknowledged and recorded among the land records of
Caroline County did manumit and set free a certain negro man named Henry And Whereas
the same negro man Henry hath made application to me for a certificate of his freedom
agreeably to the acts of assembly in such cases made and provided:  And whereas
also upon the oath of Zabdiel W. Potter of the County aforesaid that the said negro man named
Henry 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
own accouts he is about twenty five years of age five feet four and a half inches high


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