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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 250   View pdf image
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a small scar on the right hand and one do on the thumb
of the left hand and has no other notable marks or scars that I
have observed  Dark Chesnutt Complexion.  In Testimony
whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal
    (Seal)               of Caroline County Court this 29th day
                            of August 1849
                                                       James H. Fountain Clk


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit   Whereas application
hath been made to me by a negro man named Charles Potts 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
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
Thomas Numbers of Caroline County aforesaid that said negro man named
Charles Potts 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 five years of age five four and three fourth
inches high or thereabouts of black complexion was born and raised
in Caroline County aforesaid and has a small scar under the right
eye and one ditto on the left temple and has no other marks or
scars that I have observed   In Testimony whereof I hereunto
subscribe my name and affix the seal of Caroline County
                                        Court this 15th day of September Anno
(Seal)                               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 girl ^woman^ named
Mary Willson 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


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