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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 251   View pdf image
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of a certificate of being free born and whereas also upon
the oath of Mitchell Andrew of Caroline County that the
said negro woman named Mary Willson for whom this
certificate was made was free born I do therefore grant
her said application and hereby certify that from her own
account she is now about born Eighteen years of age five feet
three & three fourth inches high or thereabouts of a dark chesnutt
Complexion was born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid
and has a small scar on the thumb of the left hand 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 18th day of September
                            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 Wilkinson free born 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 William Stewart of Caroline County aforesaid
that the said negro woman named Mary Wilkinson 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 years of age
Five feet four and a half inches high or thereabouts
of a Black Complexion was born and raised in Caroline
County and has a small scar on her right wrist
and has no other notable marks or scars that
I have observed               In Testimony whereof


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