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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 343   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit   Whereas application hath been made to me by a negro
woman named Eliza Fountain 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
travil out of this State of upon the obtention of a certificate of being free born and wheras also upon
the oath of Mary Griffith of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Eliza Fountain
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 is in her seventeenth year of age four feet eleven
can one ^half^ inches high or thereabouts of a dark mulattoe complexion was born and raised in
Caroline County and has a scar on the end of her left thumb just under her nail occasioned
as she says from a gathering which has caused it to be shorter than her right thumb and
has 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
           this 19th day of July Anno Domini 1833
Cost $1.00                                                               Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                                Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas at a County Court begun and
held at Denton and for Caroline County on the first monday of March in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one a certain negro woman
named Diana by Judgment of the same Court recovered Judgment of her freedom of
a certain John Stevens of Caroline County and whereas also upon the oath of John W. Vaux
of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Diana for whom this certificate
is made is the same woman named as having recovered Judgment of her freedom as
aforesaid I do therefore grant her said application and hereby certify that from her
own account she is about fifty four years of age five feet and one quarter of an inch
high or thereabouts of a black complexion was born and raised in Caroline County and has
two small scars of a burn under her right jaw and another small scar of a scratch or cut
on her left cheek and another scar of a cut across the small of her right arm and a

*To Joseph Richardson Esquire 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 relations   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 month of November or
December next.   Given under my hand this 11th day of July 1833
                                                                                           his
Test   Tho.s V. Bishop                                           Harrison x Loockerman
                                                                                        marke



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