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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 228   View pdf image
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of a black complexion was born and raised in Caroline
County aforesaid and has a small scar on his forehead
over the right eye and has no other notable marks or
scars that I have observed.   In testimony whereof I hereto
                subscribe my name and affix the seal of
(seal)       Caroline County Court this 3d day of November
                AD. 1847                  James H Fountain Clk
                                                       Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit   Whereas
application hath been made to me by a negro man
named William Wayman 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 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 James Shields of Caroline County
^aforesaid^ that the said negro man named William Wayman
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
nineteen years of age six feet one & three fourth inches
high or thereabouts of a black complexion was
born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid and
has a scar on his forehead occasioned by a cut one
to on the inside of the middle finger of the right
hand & two large scars on the right Knee and has
no other notable marks and ^or^ scars as I have observed
                In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe
(seal)        my name and affix the seal of Caroline
                County Court this 3.d day of November
                AD 1847                     James H. Fountain Clk
                                                       Caroline County Court


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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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