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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 80   View pdf image
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the public seal of my office this 28th day of August Anno Domini 1833
Cost $1.00                                                                  Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                                   Caroline County Court


N. B.  The negro woman Hannah Chace within named has with her a child two years
of age the first day of ^May last past^ with the fingers all burnt off the left hand and a large
scar of a burn on the left side of hits face
                                                                Test      Jo Richardson  Clk


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro woman named Louiza Woolford for a certificate of her
freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case made and provided by
which said act free negroe's and mulattoe's 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 John Evitts of Caroline County that the said negro
woman named Louiza Woolford 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 twenty two years of age the
twenty first day of May last of a brown Complexion born and raised
in Caroline County five feet one and three quarter inches high or thereabouts
and has a small scar of a burn on her left cheek 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 August Anno Domini 1833
                                                                                  Jo Richardson  Clk of
             Cost $1      pd                                                Caroline County Court


    State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made
to me by a negro girl named Margaret Ann Hutchens for a certificate of her freedom
agreeably to the act of Assembly in such case made and provided by which said
act free negroe's and mulattoe's 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 James K. Saulsbury
of Caroline County that the said negro girl named Margaret Ann Hutchens 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 twenty years of age the first


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