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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 243   View pdf image
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Caroline County to wit  Whereas application hath been made to
me by a negro woman named Rachel Johnson for a certificate of
her freedom agreeably to the acts of assembly in such case made and
provided by which said acts free negroes & mulattoes are permitted to
travel out of this state upon the obtention of a certificate of freedom.  And
whereas upon information of my own knowledge that the said negro woman
named Rachel for whom this certificate is made is the same person
manumitted & set free by me by a Deed of manumission dated the 29th
of April 1848 & recorded in liber J H F No Y folio 20 one of the land record
Books of Caroline County.  I do therefore grant her said application and
hereby certify that she was about thirty five years of age at the date of
said manumission five feet two & one half inches high or thereabout &
of a dark chesnutt complexion & has a large scar on her left cheek
& temple & a large black mole on the left arm & has no other notable
marks or scars that I have observed   In testimony whereof I
                                           hereto subscribe my name and
(Seal)                                  affix the seal of Caroline County Court
                                           this 30th day of October A D 1848
                                                                      James H Fountain clk of
                                                                      Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro woman named Sarah E. Barwick 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 also upon the
oath of Samuel Cooper of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro woman named
Sarah E. Barwick 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 now
about eighteen years of age five feet four inches high or thereabouts of a mulatto
complexion was born & raised in Caroline COunty & has a small scar over her right
eye & one small do on her left wrist and has no other notable marks or scars
that I have observed      In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my
(Seal)                        name & affix the seal of Caroline County Court this 31st day
                                 of October A D 1848            James H Fountain clk
                                                                               of Caroline County Court


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