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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 43   View pdf image
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was this day produced and delivered to me in a torn defaced and mutilated state by the
said negro man Benjamin named in the said certificate And I further certify that the
said negro man Benjamin has lost the two first joints of his left little finger which
he alleges he lost since the original certificate of his freedom was granted
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal
           of my office this 7th day of September Anno Domini 1830
                                                                                           Jo Richardson Clk of
                         {see note of the delivery of passport}         Caroline County Court
                         {of negro Benjamin in Liber JR No A folio 60}


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas heretofore to wit:  on the
twenty first day of February eighteen hundred and four a certain Anthony Ross
by Deed of Manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded among the
Land records of Caroline County did manumit and set free a certain negro
woman named Sall (now calling herself Sarah Gibson) to be free on the first
day of January eighteen hundred and five; and the said negro woman named
Sall (now calling herself Sarah Gibson) having made application to me for a
certificate of her freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case made
and provided and whereas also upon the oath of Sarah Perry of Caroline County
that the said negro woman named Sall (now calling herself Sarah Gibson)
is the same person mentioned in the said manumission; I do therefore grant
her said application and hereby certify that from her age as expressed in
the said manumission she is about forty seven years of age five feet four
and three quarter inches high or thereabouts of a dark complexion was
born and raised in Caroline County has one scar on the left side of her
forehead and 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 office this 6.th day of November anno Domini 1830
           Cost $1.00 Cts                                                Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                                  Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas heretofore to wit on the
twenty first day of February eighteen hundred and four a certain Anthony
Ross by Deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded among
the Land records of Caroline County did manumit and set free a certain
negro woman named Charity (now calling herself Charity Allen) to be free
on the first day of January Eighteen hundred and eleven and the said


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