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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 247   View pdf image
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Mary Ellen Scott 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 three inches high or thereabouts of a black complexion was
born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid and has a large
s no notable marks or scars that I have observed
                In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribe my
(seal)        name and affix the seal of Caroline County Court this 15th ^3d^
                day of August ^April^ Anno Domini 1849
                                                                James H. Fountain Clk of
                                                                Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit   Be it remembered Whereas
application hath been made to me by a negro woman named George W.
Calwell for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the acts of Assembly
in such case made and provided by which said acts free negroes and
mulattos 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 Sarah Wootten of Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro
man named George W Caldwell for whom this Certificate is made
was free born.            I do therefore grant his said application and
hereby certify that from his own account he is now about twenty
one years of age five feet four & a half inches high or thereabouts ^of a^ dark
Chesnutt Complexion was born and raised in Caroline County
aforesaid and has a large scar or mark on the left arm below
the elbow & has no other notable marks or scars that I have observed
                                        In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
my name and affix the seal of Caroline County Court
          (seal)                     this 16th day of May A. D. 1849
                                                                   James H. Fountain Clk
                                                                            of
                                                                   Caroline County Court


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