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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 69   View pdf image
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the said negro boy named Jacob (now calling himself Jacob Cook) 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 Charles Peters of Caroline County that the said negro boy
named Jacob (now calling himself Jacob Cook) 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 fifty eight years of age the first day of January
last five feet two inches high or thereabouts of a black complexion was born and raised in
Caroline County and has a scar over the iner corner of his right eye caused by the kick of
a horse and another on the inside of his right arm above the elbow caused by the bite of
a dog 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 24th day of July Anno Domini 1832
Cost $1.00  cts                                                               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 Lewis Smith 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 travil out of this state upon the
obtention of a certificate of being free born and whereas also upon the oath of
Jacob Dyett of Caroline County that the said negro man named Lewis Smith
for whom this certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant his said application
and hereby certify that from his own account he will be twenty six years of
age the fourteenth day of August Instant five feet seven inches high or thereabouts
of a black complexion was born and raised in Caroline County and has a
small scar of a cut on his left knee 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 1st day of August Anno Domini 1832
Cost $1.00 cts                                                               Jo RIchardson Clk of
                                                                                     Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit Whereas heretofore to wit on the
nineteenth day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty
two a certain John Clements by deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged
and recorded among the land records of Caroline County did manumit and set


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