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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 283   View pdf image
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caused by a burn and has no other Notable
marks or scars that I have observed
                   In Testimony whereof I hereunto
                   subscribe my name and affix this seal
(Seal)          of the Circuit Court for Caroline
                   County this 23.d day of August Anno
                   Domini 1852
                                              Thomas F. Garey Clk


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit   Whereas application
hath been made to me by negro woman Rhoda Din for a Certificate of
her freedom agreeably to Law and whereas upon the Oath of William J Pratt
of said County has been proven that said woman was born free I do
Therefore grant her this Certificate She is about 27 Years of age
5 feet 4¾ inches high of dark chesnut Complexion with no notable
scars
                            In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and
       (seal)             affix the seal of Circuit Court for Caroline
                            County this 20th Novemb 1852
                                                                            Tho F. Garey Clk


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:   Whereas
heretofore to wit on the 29th day of March 1825 a certain
George A Smith did manumit and set free a
certain negro girl named Emma to be free on the 1.st
of January 1850.     And whereas application hath
been made to me by a mullato woman calling herself
Emma Lucas for a certificate of her freedom agreeably
to the act of assembly in such case made and
provided:   And whereas on the Oath of Owen C Jones
the she is the same one mentioned in said Manumission
I do therefore grant her this Certificate   She is about
30 years of age five feet Two inches high or thereabouts of
a bright mullatto Complexion with no notable scars
                      In Testimony whereof I hereto set my
                      hand and affix the seal of the Circuit
    (seal)          Court for Caroline County this 2d
                      day of November A D 1852
                                                 Thomas F Garey Clk



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