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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 229   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit.   Whereas on the twenty
third day of November 1847 a certain Christopher Green of
Caroline County by Deed of Manumission duly executed
acknowledged and recorded among the Land Records of
Caroline County did manumit and set free from and
after the date of said Manumission a certain negro
man named William Green and application being
made to me by William Green for a certificate of his
freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case made
and provided, And whereas also upon the oath of Abraham
Jump of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro
man named William Green is the same and identical
person named in said deed of Manumission and that the
said negro man named William Green is now free, I do
therefore grant his said application and hereby certify
that from his own account he is now about twenty
four years of age five feet six inches high or thereabouts
was born and raised in Caroline county complexion black
and has a scar of a burn on the Left wrist joint extending
up the arm & a scar of a cut on the Left knee joint
& has no other notable marks or scars that I have observed
                   In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my
(seal)           name and affix the seal of Caroline County
                   Court this 23d day of November A. D. 1847
                                              James H Fountain Clk
                                              Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit on the twenty
ninth day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and ten a certain Elizabeth
Slaughter of Caroline County by deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged
and recorded among the land records of Caroline County did manumit and set
free a certain negro woman named Nann to be free when she should arrive
to the age of thirty years and her issue if any to be free when they should
arrive to the age of thirty years, And whereas application hath been made
to me by Mary Price a negro woman (being the issue of the aforesaid


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