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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 246   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit   Whereas
Application hath been made to me by a negro woman
named Caroline Hicks 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
mulatto's 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 John G
Faulkner of Caroline      John Williams of
Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro ^wo^man named
Caroline Hicks 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 twenty two years of age five feet Six & a half
inches high or thereabouts of a black complexion was
born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid and has
a small scar on her left wrist and has no other
notable marks or scars that I have observed
                         In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe
(seal)                 my name and affix the seal of Caroline
                         County Court this 30th day of August ^January^
                         Anno Domini 1849
                                              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 Mary Ellen Scott 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 mulattoe's 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 John G Faulkner ^Spencer Hitch^ of Caroline
county aforesaid that the said negro man woman named


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