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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 232   View pdf image
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County and has a small scar on his right arm between
the elbow & wrist also a large scar on the left
ankle and has no other notable marks or scars
that I have observed   In testimony whereof I
            hereunto subscribe my name and affix
(seal)   the seal of Caroline County Court this 25th
           day of January A. D. 1848      James H Fountain
                                                    Clerk of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit   Whereas
application hath been made to me by a negro woman
named Elizabeth Hanes for a certificate of her 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 alson upon
the oath of William H Gootee Esqr of Caroline County
aforesaid that the said negro woman named Elizabeth
Hanes 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 twenty
four years of age in October last (1847) four feet
eleven inches high or thereabouts of a light chesnut
Complexion was born and raised in Caroline County
aforesaid and has no notable marks or scars
that I have observed
                         In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
                         subscribed my name and affixed
                         the seal of Caroline County Court
(Seal)                this 24th day of March AD 1848
                                           James H Fountain clk
                                                          of
                                           Caroline County Court


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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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