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48 State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me by a negro woman named Sarah Ann Bias 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 travel out of this State upon the obtention of a certificate of being free born: And whereas also upon the oath of Deborough Jones of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Sarah Ann Bias 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 about eighteen years of age five feet five and a half inches high or thereabouts of a dark Brown complexion born and raised in Caroline County has a tolerable large scar of a burn on the out side of the small of her left leg a little above the ancle and the little finger of her right hand crooked. 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 2d day of May Anno Domini 1831 Cost $1.00 Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit on the sixth day of October Eighteen hundred and twenty a certain Rachel Rhodes by Deed of Manumission duly executed acknowledged ^and recorded^ among the land records of Caroline County did manumit and set free a certain negro boy named Jacob to be free from and after the date of the said manumission and the said Negro boy named Jacob having made application to me for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the act of Assembly in such case made and provided and whereas also upon the Oath of William Whiteley of Caroline County that the said negro boy named Jacob for whom this certificate is made is the same person mentioned in the said manumission I do therefore grant his said application and hereby certify that from his age as expressed in the said manumission he was eighteen years of age the sixth day of October last five feet ten and a half inches high or thereabouts of a black complexion born and raised in Caroline County has a scar on his left cheek caused as he says by the kick of a horse extending from a line drawn horizontally with his mouth up to the side of his nose and another scar of a cut obliquely across the end of his nose and no other marks or scars that I have observed In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe (seal) my name & affix the public seal of my office this 10th day of May Anno Domini 1831 Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court |
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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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