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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 168   View pdf image
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the obtention of a certificate of being free born and whereas also upon the oath of
John Cooper of Caroline aforesaid that the said negro woman named Sarah Hawkins
for whom this Certificate is made was free born; I do therefore grant her said application
and hereby certify that from his own account she was twenty seven years of age on the
tenth day of May last past five feet high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline
County Complexion Black and has a small scar of a cut on the inside of her
right wrist; 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 13 day of June Anno Domini 1842
                                                                                     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 woman named Mary Downes for a certificate of her freedom
agreeably to the acts of Assembly in such Case made and provided by which said
acts free negroes 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 the oath of
Jonathan Nicols of Caroline County aforesaid that the said mulatto woman named
Mary Downes for whom this Certificate is made was free born; I do therefore grant
her said application and hereby Certify that from her own personal account she
is now about thirty years of age five feet four inches high or thereabouts was born;
and raised in Caroline County and of a bright mulatto complexion and has a dark
flesh mole under her right jaw and has no other notable mark or scar that I have
observed          In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the
(seal)                public seal of my office this 13th day of June Anno Domini
                        1842                                             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 negro woman named Margaret Ann Downes for a Certificate of her 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 negro woman named
Margaret Ann Downes for whom this certificate is made was free born; I do
hereby therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify that from



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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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