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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 203   View pdf image
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In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and
(       Seal of       )      affix the public seal of my office this
(Caroline County)     27th day of December A D 1845
(        Court        )                                  James H Fountain clk
                                                             of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit; on
the fourth day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and
thirty one a certain Parrott Roe by Deed of Manumission duly executed acknowledged
& recorded among the Land records of Caroline County did manumit
manumit and set free a certain negro girl called Rhoda (now calling
herself Rhoda Murray) she being then fourteen years of age to be
free when she should arrive at the age of twenty five years; And the
said negro woman named Rhoda having made application to me for a certificate
of her freedom agreeably to the acts of Assembly in such Case made and
Provided.   And whereas also upon the oath of William Roe of Caroline
County aforesaid that the said negro girl Rhoda (now calling herself
Rhoda Murray) 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 was twenty eight years of age on the fourth day of
April last past five feet three & one half inches high or thereabouts
of a dark chesnut Complexion was born and raised in Caroline
County aforesaid and has no 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 Caroline
(        Court        )   County Court this twentieth day January
                              Eighteen hundred and forty Six
                                                       James H Fountain Clerk of
                            Cost $1.00            Caroline County Court


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