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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 73   View pdf image
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I do therefore grant his said application and hereby certify that from his own account
he was thirty seven years of age the first day of January last five feet two and three
quarter inches high or thereabouts complexion nearly black was born and raised in
Caroline County and has no 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 26th day of January Anno Domini 1833
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 Hannah Price 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
Mary Maria Towers of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Hannah Price
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 will be seventeen
years of age the tenth day of October next five feet and one quarter of an inch
high or thereabouts; of a brown complexion was born and raised in Caroline County
has a small scar of a scratch cross wise her right cheek and a little above the right
nostril and another small scar of a burn on her left hand and the end of the
ring finger of her left hand disfigured by a cut 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 23d day of April Anno Domini 1833
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 Henrietta Sharpe 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 travil out of this State upon the
obtention of a certificate of being free born and whereas also upon the oath
of Ann Vincent of Caroline County that the said negro woman named
Henrietta Sharpe ^for whom this certificate is made^ was free born I do therefore grant her said application


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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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