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17 act free negroes and moltoes are permitted to travel out of this state upon the obtention of a certificate of being free born and whereas also on ^upon^ the oath of Nathan Whitby of Caroline County that the said coloured ^man^ named Aaron Clarke 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 one years of age in March last five feet six and a quarter inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County of a complexion nearly black has a scar of a cut under his left jaw between one and two inches in lengeth in a ridge above the surface of the skin and no other notable markes or scars that I have observed (seal) In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my office this 7th day of April anno Domini 1829 Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court State of Maryland Caroline county to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit on the thirty first day of May Eighteen hundred and twenty five a certain Elizabeth Dwiggans by Deed of Manumission duly execute acknowledged and recorded among the Land records of caroline county did manumit and set free a certain negro woman named Jane Hudson formerly Jane Baily to be free from and after the date of the said Manumission and the said negro woman named Jane Hudson formerly Jane Baily having made application to me for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case made and provided and whereas also upon the oath of James Sangston of caroline county that the said negro woman named Jane Hudson formerly Jane Baily 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 is about forty eight years of age five feet and one inch high or thereabouts was born and raised in caroline county of a molto complexion has a large natural mark on her right cheek and a scar of a cut nearly perpendicular over her right eye her finger next the little finger of her right hand crooked and injured in the middle joint and 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 11th day of April anno Domini 1829 Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court |
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