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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 220   View pdf image
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marks or scars that I have observed
(      seal of     )      In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name
(County Court)      and affix the the seal of Caroline County Court
                             this 23.d day of February 1847
                                                                   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 Elizabeth Eaton
for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the act 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 Purte of Caroline County aforesaid that the
said negro woman named Sarah Elizabeth Eaton 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
was seventeen years of age on the twenty ninth day of July last
past four feet eleven inches high or thereabouts was born and
raised in Caroline County Complexion chesnutt colour and has
no notable marks or scars that I have observed
( Seal of )                  In testimony whereof i hereto subscribe my
(Caroline)                  name and affix the public seal of my office
                                 this 5th day of April A D 1847
                                                       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 man named
Edward Nicols 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 and 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 F Willis of


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