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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 252   View pdf image
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I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of
       (Seal)         Caroline County Court this 26th
                         day of September A. D. 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 man named Henry Friend 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 Charles of Edgell of Caroline County aforesaid that the said
negro man named Henry Friend 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 six years of age five feet seven and three quarter inches
high or thereabouts of a black complexion was born and raised
in Caroline County aforesaid and has a small scar or lump
just over the left eye occasioned by a cut and has no
other notable marks or scars that I have observed
                                     In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
(Seal)                            my name and affix the seal of Caroline
                                     County Court this fifth day of November
                                     1849                        Jas H Fountain clk of
                                                                     Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; whereas application
hath been made to me by a negro man named William Friend 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 Charles Edgell of Caroline County
aforesaid that the said negro man named William Friend


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