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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 30   View pdf image
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this Certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant his said
application and hereby Certify that from his own account he was
twenty one years of age the sixth of day of January last five feet
six and a half inches high or thereabouts of a black complexion was
born in Baltimore in raised in Caroline County he appears to be pitted by
the small pox on the left cheek has a large scar on the top of his
left arm a little below the shoulder joint and another small round scar
on his left elbow and the middle joint of his little finger on the left hand
is bent by the cut of a reef book over the joint and no other notable
marks or scars that I have observed
(seal)      In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and
              affix the public seal of my office this 22d day of March
              Anno Domini 1830                     Jos Richardson Clk of
                                                                Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas application hath been made
to me by a coloured woman named Susan Cook for a certificate of her freedom agreeably
to the act of assembly in such case made and provided by which said act 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 John H Dwiggans
of Caroline County that the said coloured woman named Susan Cook for whom
this Certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant her said application
and hereby certify that she is five feet four inches high or thereabouts appears to
be about forty years of age was born and raised in Caroline County of a black
complexion has several scars about the outer corner of her left eye and another scar
nearly perpendicular near the corner of her right eye and another scar on the
inner part of her right arm a little below the elbow joint and no other notable
marks or scars that I have observed                     In Testimony whereof I hereto
(seal)   subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my office this 27th
           day of March Anno Domini 1830
                                                                             Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                             Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas application hath been
made to me by a coloured man named Daniel Collins for a certificate



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