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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 197   View pdf image
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    State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;   Whereas application hath
been made to me by a negro woman named Maria Reasons 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
mulatto'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 Thomas B. Culbreth of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro
woman named Maria Reasons for whom this Certificate is made was
free born.                   In Testimony Whereof I hereunto subscribe My
(       seal of        )      name and affix the seal of Caroline County Court
(Caroline County)      this 29.th day of July Anno Domini 1845
(        Court        )                                 James H. Fountain Clerk of
                                                                Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; whereas application
hath been made to me by a negro man named Cato (alias) John
Casson 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 John Nicols of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro
man named Cato (alias) John Casson 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 is now about thirty one
years of age five feet eight inches high or thereabouts of a Mulatto
Complexion was born and raised in Caroline County & has a small
scar on the inside of his left arm near the elbow joint and has


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