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230 negro woman named Nann) for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the acts of Assembly in such Case made and provided, And whereas also upon the Oath of Noah Seward of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro woman named Mary Price for whom this certificate is made is free; I do therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify that from her own account she is now about thirty three years of age five feet five and one half inches high or thereabouts of a dark chesnut complexion was born in Queen Anns and raised in Caroline County'.s and has a small scar of a Cut just under her right eye and another large scar on the Cap of her left Knee and 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 14.th day of December Anno Domini 1847 James H. Fountain Clk of Caroline County Court State of Maryland Caroline County to wit Whereas heretofore to wit on the thirty first day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty one a certain Thomas Swann of Caroline County by deed of manumission duly executed and acknowledged and recorded among the records of Caroline County did Manumit and set free a certain negro girl named Ann Maria to be free when she should arrive at the age of twenty years viz on the sixteenth day of April Eighteen hundred and forty seven, And whereas also upon the oath of James Swann of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro woman named Ann Maria Hindman for whom this certificate is made is the identical person mentioned in the aforesaid deed of manumission and That she is now free I do therefore grant her said application and hereby certify that from the deed of manumission aforesaid |
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