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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 42   View pdf image
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being free born and whereas also upon the oath of Stephen J Bradly of
Caroline County that the said coloured woman named Ann Gel^i^ne Canady
for whom this certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant her
said application and hereby certify that according to her mothers account she
will be seventeen years of age the twentieth day of January next five feet
three and a half inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline
County of a Black complexion has a natureal scare on the wrist of her left
arm and no other notable marks or sccars that I have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the public
           seal of my office this 2.d day of September Anno Domini 1830
             Cost $1.00 Cts                                          Jos Richardson  Clk of
                                                                               Caroline County Court


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 by Deed of Manumission duly executed
acknowledged and recorded amongst the Land records of Caroline County afd did
manumit and set free amongst others a negro Boy called Benjamin to be free from &
after the date of the said manumission  And whereas the said negro Benjamin
hath this day made application to me for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the
act of assembly in such case made and provided and being satisfied by the oath of
Colo William Potter that the said negro Benjamin to whom this certificate is
delivered is the identical person mentioned by that name in the manumission
afd  I do therefore grant his said application and hereby certify that from the age expressed
in the manumission afd the said negro man called Benjamin is about
twenty two years of age was raised as he says himself partly in Caroline partly in
Queen Anns and partly in Hardford Counties he is five feet six inches high of
tolerable make and Black complexion has a large scar on the outer part of the
left thigh occasioned (as he says) by a burn and a small one on the left arm occasioned
by a thorn and no other notable marks that I can discover
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the public seal
           of my office this 27th day of July 1830               Tho: Richardson  Clk of
                                                                                     Caroline County Court


       Caroline county to wit; I hereby certify that the aforegoing copy of a certificate
of freedom is truly and faithfully taken and copied from the original certificate which


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