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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 176   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit whereas heretofore to wit on the
seventeenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty three a certain Zabdiel W Potter of Caroline County by deed of manumission
acknowledged and recorded among the land records of Caroline County aforesaid
did manumit and set free a certain negro man named Bonaparte to be free
from the date of said manumission; And whereas the said negro man
named Bonaparte having made application to me for a certificate
of his freedom agreeably to the acts of assembly in such case made
and provided; And whereas also from my own personal knowledge
that the said negro man named Bonaparte 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 age as expressed in said manumission he is now about forty
years of age five feet five inches high or thereabouts was born and
raised in Caroline County aforesaid Complexion Black and
has a small scar on the right side of his face and near his ear and
another small scar of a cut just at the Corner of his left nostril
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 28.th day of August
                         A D. 1843               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 Frederick Wisher for a
certificate of his freedom agreeably to the acts of assembly in such case
made and provided by which said acts free negroe's 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 William J Pratt of Caroline County aforesaid that the
said mulattoe man named Frederick Wisher for whom this
certificate is made was ^is^ made was free born; I do therefore grant
his said application and hereby Certify that from his own account
he is now about thirty years of age five feet seven and a quarter


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