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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 177   View pdf image
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inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid
and of a dark mulattoe complexion and has a scar of a cut on
the wright wrist joint and has no other notable marks or scars that
I have observed     In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my
(seal)                     name and affix the public seal of my office
                               this 25.th day of October A D. 1843
                   Cost $1.00          Jo Richardson  Clk of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to
me by a mulatto boy named John Mackery 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 WIlliam A Barwick of Caroline County aforesaid that the said
mulatto boy named John Mackery for whome this certificate is made
was free born; I do therefore grant his said application and hereby certify
that from his mothers account he was fourteen years of age on the fourth
day of March last past four feet nine and a half inches high or thereabouts
was born and raised in Caroline County and of a brown complexion and
has a scar of a cut on the right thumb joint and another large scar
of a cut on the right leg and just below the calf and has no other notable
marks or scars that I have observed         In testimony whereof I hereto
(seal)                        subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my
                                office this 29th day of November 1843
             cost $1.00                  Jo Richardson  Clk of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit; on the
fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty three a certain Robert Bishop of Caroline County in the state of
Maryland by deed of manumission duly acknowledged and recorded
among the land records of Caroline County aforesaid did manumit
and set free a certain Mulatto woman named Dolly Miers to be free
from the date of said manumission; And whereas the said negro woman
Dolly Miers having made application to me for a certificate


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