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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 231   View pdf image
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she was twenty years of age on the sixteenth day of April last
five feet high or thereabouts of a chesnutt complexion and has a
scar on the left Arm occasioned by a burn another small scar on the
left hand and has no other notable marks or scars that I have
observed                   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
                                 my name and affix the seal
(Seal)                        of Caroline County Court this 17th day
                                 of December Anno Domini 1847
                                                    James H Fountain clk
                                                          of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit.  Whereas on
this day to wit the twenty fifth day of January in the year of
our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty Eight
a Certain William G. Comegys of Caroline County by
deed of manumission duly executed and acknowledged
and filed to be recorded among the records of Caroline
County did manumit and set free a certain negro
man named Isaac Earle to be free from and after
the date of the aforesaid Deed of manumission viz
the twenty fifth day of January Eighteen hundred and
forty Eight and whereas application hath been made
to me by a negro man calling himself Isaac Earle
for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the acts
of Assembly in such cases and whereas also upon
the oath of William G. Comegys aforesaid that the said
negro man named Isaac Earle for whom this
certificate is made is the same mentioned in the
aforesaid manumission and that he is now
free   I do therefore grant his said application and
hereby certify that from his own account he was
thirty nine years of age on the 6th of this Inst. five
feet seven ^& one half^ inches high or thereabouts of a Black complexion
was born and raised in Queen Anns



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