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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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^negro^ boy named Nace to be free from and after the date of Manumission and the said
negro boy named Nace 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 Prouse of Caroline County
that the said negro boy named Nace for whom this Certificate is made is
the same person mentioned in the said Manumission I do therefore grant
his said application and hereby certify that he is five feet six inches high
or thereabouts about nineteen years of age was born and raised in Caroline
County and of a dark brown complexion and has no particular marks or
scars that I have observed      In Testimony whereof I heretofore
(seal)   subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my office this
16th day of august anno Domini 1827          Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                  Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:   Whereas heretofore to wit on the Seventh day
of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and two a certain Charles
Jones 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 man named Charles to be free from and after the first day of January
Eighteen hundred and Ten and the said negro man named Charles having
made application to me for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the act of assembly
in such case made and provided by which said act free negroes and molattoes
are permitted to travel out of this state upon the obtention of a certificate of a certificate
of being free born and whereas also upon the oath of
of Caroline County that the said negro man named Charles for whom this certificate
is made is the same person mentioned in the said Manumission I do therefore
grant his said application and hereby Certify that from his age as expressed in the
said Manumission he was forty three years of age the seventh day of September
last about five feet five and a quarter inches high of a black complexion was born
and raised in Caroline County has several small scars nearly in the center of his
forehead and a scar on his right cheek lengthwise the cheek and a black mole
under his left eye the end of his left thumb and the nail disfigured by being bit
off in a fight as he says and no other notable marks or scars that I have observed
In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix
(seal)   the public seal of my office this                  day of


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