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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 212   View pdf image
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woman named Mary Ellen Garner for whom this certificate is made
is made was free born; I do therefore grant her said application and
hereby certify that from her own account she was twenty one years
of age on the tenth day of August instant five feet seven and one fourth
inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in caroline county aforesaid
and of a chesnut complexion and has no notable marks or scars
that I have observed      In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
(      Seale of      )   my name and affix the seal of Caroline County
(Caroline County)   court this 17th day of August 1846
(        Court        )                              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 Sarah A. Rich 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 Joshua
Clarke of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro woman
named Sarah A. Rich 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 years of age five feet
two inches high or thereabouts of a Mulatto Complexion was born
and raised in Caroline County aforesaid & has a large scar on her
right arm near the elbow and has no other notable marks or scars
that I have observed
(Seal of Caroline)      In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto subscribe My
(  County Court )      name & affix the seal of Caroline County
                                Court this 28.th day of August Anno Domini 1846
                                                   James H. Fountain Clerk of
                                                       Caroline County Court

 


 

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