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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 256   View pdf image
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have observed         In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
                               subscribed my name and affixed the seal
(Seal)                       of Caroline County Court this 10th day of
                               December 1849   James H Fountain clk
                                                           of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas heretofore
to wit on the         day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and twenty one a certain Aaron Baynard of the County
and state aforesaid by deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged
and recorded among the land records of Caroline County
aforesaid did manumit and set free a certain negro boy named
Aaron Baynard to be from and after the date of the aforesaid
manumission  and whereas the said negro Aaron Baynard
is now a man & has made application to me for a certificate
of his freedom according to the acts of assembly in such case
made and provided and whereas also upon the oath of
Thomas Roe senr of Caroline County afsd that the said negro
man Aaron Baynard for whom this certificate is made is
the same person mentioned in the said deed of manumission
I do therefore grant his said application and hereby certify
that from his age as expressed in the said manumission he is
now about thirty one years of age five feet six Inches high
or thereabouts of a dark mulatto complexion was born and
raised in caroline county afsd and has a small scar on the
arm near the shoulder blade an other on the left leg across
the shin bone and an other on the knee of the same leg all
occasioned by cuts and has no other notable marks or scars
that I have observed            In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
                                           my name and affix the seal of
(Seal)                                  Caroline County Court this 4th day
                                           of January A D 1850
                                                                James H Fountain clk
                                                                of Caroline County Court


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