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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 72   View pdf image
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eighteen years of age or thereabouts five feet high or thereabouts complexion nearly
black was born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar of a cut on the right side
of her neck 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 10th day of December 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 Absolom Chace 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 affirmation of Thomas Hopkins of Caroline County
that the said negro man named Absolom Chace for whom this certificate is made was
free born I do therefore grant her said application and hereby certify that from his own
account he was twenty one years of age the twenty fourth day of November last five
feet four inches high or therabouts complexion dark mulattoe was born in Caroline
County and raised partly in Caroline and partly in Talbot and partly in Baltimore
Counties and has a round black natural mark in the edge of his hair over the left eye
and another scar of a cut obliquely across his left little finger 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 25th day of December 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 fifteenth day
of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two a certain
Edward B. Hardcastle and Joseph Richardson by Deed of Manumission duly executed
acknowledged and recorded among the Land Records of Caroline County did manumit and
set free a certain negro man named Jacob Taylor to be free and at perfect liberty from and
after the date of the manumission and the said negro man ^named^ Jacob Taylor 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 being satisfied upon from my own personal
knowledg                                          that the said negro man named Jacob Taylor
for whom this certificate is made is the same person mentioned in the said manumission


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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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