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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 217   View pdf image
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notable marks or scars that I have observed
(seal of Caroline)      In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe
(  County Court )      my name and affix the seal of Caroline
                                County Court this 5.th day of November 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 man named William Sephus
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 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 Gowty Stevens of Caroline
County aforesaid that the said negro man named
William Sephus 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 eighteen years of age five feet Six and
one half inches high or thereabouts of a black Complexion
was born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid and
has a scar on the end of the middle finger of his right
hand and has no other notable Marks or scars that
I have now observed
(      Seal of        )         In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe
(Caroline County)         my name and affix the seal of
(       Court         )         Caroline County Court this tenth day of
                                    November 1846
                                                       James H Fountain Clerk of
                                                          Caroline County Court


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