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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 71   View pdf image
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obseved   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the
(seal)        public seal of my office this 13th day of November Anno Domini 1832
                                                                            Jo Richardson  Clk of
Cost $1.00                                                            Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas heretofore to wit on the twenty
sixth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
four a certain Susan Sangston by Deed of Manumission duly executed acknowledged
and recorded among the Land records of Caroline County did Manumit and
set free a certain negro girl named Ritty to be free on the first day of May
in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty and the said negro girl named Ritty
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 James Sangston of Caroline County that the said negro girl named Ritty
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 eight years of age the twenty sixth day of January
last past five feet five inches high or thereabouts of a black complexion was born
and raised in Caroline County and has several scars on her right arm a little
above the wrist joint and another small scar something like a pock mark on
her forehead over the inner corner of her left eye and has 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 20th day of November 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 woman named Kitty 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 travil out of this state upon the obtention of a certificate of being free born
and whereas also upon the oath of Abraham Jump senr of Caroline County that the said
negro woman named Kitty 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


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