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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 253b   View pdf image
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hereunto subscribe my name & affix the seal
(Seal)        of Caroline County Court this 7th
                 day of December 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
woman named Hester Ann Adams 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 mulattoe's
are permitted to travel out of this state upon the
obtention of a certificate of being free born
and whereas also upon the death oath of
John R Willis of Caroline County aforesaid
that the said negro woman named Hester
Ann Adams 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 three years of age five feet one and
& one half inches high or thereabouts of a light
chesnutt Complexion was born and raised
in Caroline County and has a scar
on her left wrist also a small scar below
the right eye and another on the back
of the right hand and has no other notable
marks or scars that I have observed
                In Testimony whereof the I hereunto
(seal)   subscribe my name and affix the
            seal of Caroline County Court this
             7th day of December A D. 1849
                                           James H Fountain Clk
                                       of Caroline County Court


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