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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 47   View pdf image
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                                                        Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas heretofore to wit; on the second day of May
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ten a certain Mary Haskins of Caroline County by
Deed of manumission duly elected acknowledged and recorded among the land records of
Caroline County aforesaid did manumit and set free a certain negro woman named Priss
to be free when she should arrive at the age of twenty five years and the said negro woman
named Priss 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 John Rumbold
of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Priss for whom this certificate is
made 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
was thirty year of age the second day of May last four feet eleven and three quarter inches
high or thereabouts born and raised in Caroline County of a black complexion has no notable
marks or scears that I have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my
            office this 12th day of April Anno Domini 1831      Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                                         Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas application hath been made
to me by a negro boy named Washington Ross for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to
the act of assembly in such case made and provided by which said act free negroes
and mulattoes are permitted to travel out of this state upon the obtention of a certificate
of being free born; And whereas also upon the oath of Lydia Stanton of Caroline
County that the said negro boy named Washington Ross for whom this certificate is made
was free born I do therefore grant his said application  and hereby certify that from his
mothers account he was seven of age the middle of September last three feet eight and
an eighth inches high or thereabouts was born in Caroline County of a black complexion
has a scar of a scratch extending from above the corner of his left eye brown obliquely
up and towards the right of his 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 22d day of April Anno Domini 1831
       Cost $1.00                                                   Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                            Caroline County Court


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