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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 340   View pdf image
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*  To Jos. Richardson Esq.r Clerk of Caroline County Court
             The undersigned a free negro of Caroline County wishing to
    visit Philadelphia for the purpose of seeing some of my
    relatives   By an act of Assembly of this state it is necessary
    my intention of leaving the State should be known
    to you,   It is my intention to return here again some
    time in the months of Octo: or Nov.r next   Given under
    my hand this 11th day of May 1833
Test                                                         her
         W A Ford                              Hester + Johnson
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agreeably to the act of assembly in such case made and provided by which said
act free negroes and mulattoes are permitted to travil out of this State upon
the obtention of a certificate of being free born and whereas also upon the oath
of Ann Vincent of Caroline County that the said negro girl named Ann
Jackson for whom this certificate is made was free born.  I do therefore grant
her said application and hereby certify that from her own account she was
fourteen years of age the first day of June last past four feet eleven inches high
or thereabouts of a black Complexion was born and raised in Caroline
County has several small scars of a burn on her right arm and a small scar
of a cut on her left hand a little below her wrist and has no other notable
marks or scars that I have observed
                In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the
(seal)        public seal of my office this 2d day of May Anno Domini 1833
Cost $1.00                                                               Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                                Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me
by a negro woman named Hester Johnson 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 travil out of this state upon the obtention of a
certificate of being free born and whereas also upon the oath of Joshua Clarke
of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Hester Johnson for whom
this certificate is made was free born, I do therefore grant her said application
[illegible]                that from her own account she was twenty three years of


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