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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 268   View pdf image
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       State of Maryland   Caroline County to wit
             Whereas heretofore to wit is the thirty first
day of May Eighteen hundred and thirty one a certain
^Thomas Swann^ by deed of Manumission duly executed and acknowledged
and recorded among the records of Caroline
County did manumit and set free a certain
negro girl named Ann Watts ^Hester Ann^ to be free when she doth
should arrive at the age of twenty years viz on the
sixteenth eighth day of March Eighteen hundred
and forty nine      And whereas application hath
been made to me by a negro woman calling herself
Hester Ann Hines for a certificate of her freedom
agreeably to the acts of assembly in such cases made
and provided.      And whereas also upon the
oath of James Swan of Caroline County aforesaid
that the said negro woman named Hester Ann
Hines for whom this certificate was ^is^ made is the
Identical person mentioned in the aforesaid deed
of Manumission and that she is now free
I do therefore grant her said application and hereby
certify that from the deed of Manumission aforesaid
she is now about twenty two years old five feet &
a quarter inches high or thereabouts of a chesnutt
Complexion and has a scar on the left arm
between the elbow & shoulder 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 seventeenth day of
                December A. D. 1850
                                        James H Fountain Clk
                                                       of
                                       Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit Whereas heretofore to
with on the first day of August Eighteen hundred and eight a certain
Abraham Jump of Caroline County by deed of Manumission duly executed
acknowledged and recorded among the Land records of Caroline County did manumit
a certain negro girl named Melasa to be free when she should arrive
to the age of twenty five and her male issue if any to be free when they
should arrive to the age of twenty one years.  And Whereas application
hath been made to me by a negro man named Frederick Fisher (being
the issue of the aforesaid negro girl Melasa) for a certificate of his freedom
agreeably to the acts of Assembly in such Case made and provided; And
Whereas also from my own personal knowledge that the said negro
man named Frederick Fisher for whom this certificate is made is now
free; I do therefore grant his said application and hereby Certify


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