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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 336   View pdf image
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       State of Maryland Caroline county to wit;   Whereas heretofore to wit on the
twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
ninety nine a certain John Hooper of Caroline county aforesaid by deed of manumission
duly executed & recorded did manumit & set free a certain negro boy called Kitt (at
that time one year old) to be free and at liberty from the date of the said manumission
And whereas the same negro boy named Kitt (now calling himself Christopher Gardiner)
has made application to me for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the
act of Assembly in such case made & provided and I being satisfied by the oath of
Benjamin Roe of the county aforesaid that the said negro boy named Kitt (now calling
himself Christopher Gardiner) for whom this certificate is made is the identical
negro boy mentioned in the said manumission I do therefore grant his said
application and hereby certify that the said negro boy Kitt (now calling himself
Christopher Gardiner) is five feet six inches high or thereabouts from his age
at the date of & by the said manumission expressed he was twenty years of age in April
last of a black complexion his hair woolly was born and raised in Caroline
county has a small scar on the top of his right foot between the big toe joint and
the instep and no other notable mark that I have observed
                                              In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my name
                                              and the public seal of my office affixed the 16.th
                                              day of July Anno Domini 1818
                                                                      Jo Richardson Clerk of
                                                                               Caroline county court


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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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