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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 249   View pdf image
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I do therefore grant his said application and hereby
certify that from his own account he is now about
twenty eight years of age five feet ten & one half
inches high or thereabouts of a dark brown Complexion
was born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid and
has a burn scar small scar just above the right
elbow and another small one at the corner of his
left eye and has no other notable marks or scars
that I have observed.   In Testimony whereof
             I hereto subscribe my name and affix the
(seal))    seal of Caroline County Court this
              28th day of August ^April^ 1849
                                          James H. Fountain Clk
                                                       of
                                           Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County    Whereas heretofore to wit on
the fourteenth day of October Eighteen hundred and forty four
a certain Marcellus E Keene of Caroline County by deed of
Manumission acknowledged and recorded among the land Records
of Caroline County did manumit and set free a certain negro
man named James Madison (now calling himself James Madison
Winchester to be free on the 1st day of January 1849.  And whereas
the said negro man named James Madison (now calling himself
James Madison Winchester) having made application to me
for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the acts of Assembly
in such case made and provided.  And whereas also upon
the oath of William M. Warner of Wilmington, Delaware
that the said negro man for whom this Certificate is made
is the same person mentioned in the said Manumission
I do therefore grant his said application and hereby certify
that from his own account he is now about thirty five
years of age Five feet three & a half inches high or thereabouts
was born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid and has


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