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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 257   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit, Whereas heretofore to wit on the
fourth day of December Eighteen hundred and six a certain William Crawford
of Caroline County by deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged and
recorded among the land records of Caroline County did manumit and set
free a certain negro woman named Fanny or Fan and her male issue
when they should arrive to the age of twenty five years and whereas
a negro man named Dennis Thomas the issue of the above named
Fanny or Fan having made application to me for a certificate of
his freedom agreeably to the Act of Assembly in such Case made
and provided; And Whereas also upon the oath of George B. Wilson
of Caroline County that the said negro man named Dennis Thomas
for whom this Certificate is made is free  I do therefore grant
his said application and hereby Certify that from his own account
he is now about thirty three years of age five feet five and three
quarter inches high or thereabouts of a dark Chesnut Complexion
was born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar from a
cut on the thumb of the left hand 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 8.th day of January
                               A. D. 1850                  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 Perry Thomas
for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the Acts of Assembly
in such Case made and provided by which said acts free
negroe's 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 oath of George B Wilson of
Caroline County that the said negro man named Perry
Thomas 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


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