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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 65   View pdf image
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of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Elizabeth Murray 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 was nineteen years of age the first day of September
last five feet three inches high or thereabouts of a complexion nearly black was
born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar of a burn on her right wrist 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 29th day of May Anno Domini 1832
    Cost $1.00                                                Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                    Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wi; Whereas application hath been made
to me by a negro woman named Amy Murray 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 Marcey Fountain
of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Amy Murray 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 going in her seventeen years
of age five feet three and a quarter inches high or thereabouts of a complexion nearly
black was born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar of a cut on the
outside of her right wrist directly below the joint and two fresh scars of scratches
on the back of her right hand 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 29th day of May Anno Domini 1832
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 William Fountain 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 Marcey Fountain of
Caroline County that the said negro man named William Fountain for whom this
certificate is made was free born I do therefore grand his said application and hereby


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