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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 211   View pdf image
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(       Seal of       )      and affix the seal of Caroline County Court this
(Caroline County)      15.th day of August Anno Domini 1846
(         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 William
Garner for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the acts
of Assembly in such case made and Provided by which said
act 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 Robert H.
Postlethwaite of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro
man named William Garner 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 will be twenty four
years of age sometime during the present month five feet eight
inches high or thereabouts of a chesnut complexion was born and
raised in Caroline County aforesaid and has a Small Scar on the
thumb joint of his right hand and has a mole on the same thumb
& has no other notable marks or scars that I have observed
(Seal of Caroline)      In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my
(  County Court )      name and affix the seal of Caroline County
                                Court this 15th day of August Anno Domini
                                1846                  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 woman named Mary Ellen Garner 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 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 Robert H
Postlethwaite of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro



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