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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 24   View pdf image
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left little finger between the middle and hand joints and no another fine
scar as of a scratch on the back of her left hand extending nearly from
the hand joint in a straight direction towards the wrist 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 20th day of August 1829
Cost $1.00                                                      Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                        Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to
me by a coloured woman named Nancy Stanford 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 molattoes 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 Mahala Cooper that the said coloured woman Nancy Stanford
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 is ^about^ thirty
years of age four feet eight   inches high or thereabouts of a black complexion
was born and raised in Caroline County and has no 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 21st day of August Anno Domini 1829
$1.00 cost                                                   Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                      Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit   Whereas heretofore to wit
on the twenty third day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and ten a certain Rumford Adams did manumit and set free a certain
coloured boy named James Adams of the age of four years to serve until
he arrives to the age of twenty one years and the said coloured boy
having made application to me 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 Edward Alford of Caroline County that the said coloured
boy named James Adams for whom this Certificate is made to the same
person mentioned in the said Manumission I do therefore grant his
application and hereby Certify that he was twenty three years of age



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