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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 349   View pdf image
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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 Curtis Andrew of Caroline County that the said negro
man named Joshua Downes for whom 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 two years
of age the twenty ninth day of August last six feet one and a quarter inches high or
thereabouts of a bright mulattoe complexion was born and raised in Caroline County
and has no notable marks or scars that I can discover
(seal)      In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of
               my office this 21.st day of April Anno Domini 1835
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 man named Wilson Downes for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the
Acts 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 Curtis Andrew of Caroline
County that the said negro man named Wilson Downes for whom 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 first day of April
Instant five feet eleven and one quarter Inches high or thereabouts of a brown complexion
born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar of a cut on the top of his
right foot extending obliquely across the big toe and the middle finger of his right
hand a little crooked and has no other notable marks or scars that I can discover
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal
           of my Office this 21.st day of April Anno Domini 1835
Cost $1.00                                                                        Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                                         Caroline County Court


Capt.n Joseph Richardson of Caroline County Court
The undersigned a free negro of Caroline County wishing to visit Philadelphia for the purpose
of seeing his relations   By an act of assembly of this state it is necessary my intention of leaving
this State should be known to you   It is my intention to return here again within nine months from this
date   Given under my hand this 12th day of May 1835
                                                             Abner Coker
William Connell



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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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