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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 23   View pdf image
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marks that I have obser observed      In Testimony whereof I
(seal)   hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my
            office this 4th day of august anno Domini 1829
                                                             Jo Richardson  Clk of
Cost $1.00 cts                                      Caroline County Court


    State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro ^coloured^ man named Henry Stanford for a certificate of his freedom
agreeably to the acts of assembly in such case made and provided by which said
act free negroes and mulattoes as permitted to travel out of this state upon
the obtention of a certificate of being free born and whereas also upon the oath
of Preston Conner of Caroline County that the said negro ^coloured^ man named
Henry Stanford 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 was twenty two years of age the fourth day of April last six feet high
or thereabouts of a mulatto complexion was born and raised in caroline
county has a small natural brown mark on his right cheek and no
other notable marks or scars that I have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public
           seal of my office this 17th day of August Anno Domini 1829
                                                                     Jo Richardson  Clk of
Cost $1.00                                                    Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas application hath
been made to me by coloured woman named Rachel Downes for a certificate
of her freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case made and
provided by which said act 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 Lidia Stanton of Caroline County
that the said coloured woman named Rachel Downes 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 nineteen
years of age in February last five feet three and a quarter inches high
or thereabouts of a dark mulatto complexion was born and raised in
Caroline County has a scar of a cut crossing obliquely the back of her



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