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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 166   View pdf image
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or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County is of a black complexion and
has a scar of a burn on the upper & inner part of his left arm and no other notable
mark or scar that I have obserbed
(Seal)                  In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the
                           public seal of my office this 3.d day of January Anno Domini
                           1842                                                      Jo Richardson Clk
                                                                                         Caroline County Court
NB  The above discribed negro man calls himself Henry Emory
                                                                                           Jo Richardson Clk
                                                                                           Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made
to me by a negro woman named Nancy Canada for a certificate of her freedom agreeably
to the acts of Assembly in such case made and provided by which said act 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 William Connelly of Caroline
County aforesaid that the said negro woman named Nancy Canada 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 was twenty one years of age on the last of July last past
four feet eleven and a half inches high or thereabouts of a Mulatto Complexion was born
and resided in Caroline County and has a small scar near the first joint of her right
thumb and has no other 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 10th day of May 1842
                                                                                           Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                        Cost $1.00                                  Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit; on the twelfth day of
May Eighteen hundred and twenty eight a certain Jacob C Willson 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 Called Mary Ann Holmes to be free
on the eighth day of March Eighteen hundred and forty two; and the said negro woman
named Mary Ann Holmes 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 James B Rumbold of Caroline County that the said negro
woman Called Mary Ann Holmes for whom this certificate is made is the same person


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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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