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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 193   View pdf image
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little finger on her right hand and has no other notable marks or scars that
I have observed      In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name
(     seal of       )  and affix the public seal of Caroline County Court this
(County Court)   nineteenth day of May Anno Domini 1845
                                                             James H. Fountain  Clk of
                                                                       Caroline County Court


    State of Maryland  Caroline County to wit; Whereas application
hath been Made to Me by a negro woman named
Elizabeth Mason 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 John
Underwood of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro
woman Named Elizabeth Mason 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
is now about twenty two years of age five feet two and one
half inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline
County aforesaid and of a black Complexion and has a scar
on the right side of her face occasioned by a burn (as she says) and
has no other notable Marks or scars that I have observed
(       seal of        )   In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe
(Caroline County)   My name and affix the seal of
(         Court       )   Caroline County Court this twentieth day
                               of May 1845
                                           James H. Fountain  Clerk of
                                           Caroline County Court


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