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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 265   View pdf image
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across the left eyebrow & two other small scars on
her right arm and has no other notable mark or scars
that I have observed  In Testimony whereof I hereunto
                                  subscribe my name and affix the seal
    (Seal)                     of Caroline County Court this 10th day
                                  of September Anno Domini 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 Samuel
Henry Hambleton 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
Cornelius Comegys of Caroline County aforesaid that the
said Samuel Henry Hambleton for whom this certificate
is made was free born.  I do therefore grant his said
application and hereby certify that from his own account
his is now about twenty one years of age five feet
six inches high or thereabouts of a dark ^mullatoe^ complexion
was born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid &
has a scar on the right knee occasioned by a cut
and has no other notable marks or scars that I
have observed         In Testimony whereof I hereunto
                               subscribe my name and affix
                               the seal of Caroline County Court
    (seal)                   this 13th day of September A. D. 1850
                                                       Jas H Fountain Clk
                                                                   of
                                                       Caroline County Ct.


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