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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 81   View pdf image
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week in August last past four feet eleven inches high or thereabouts of a dark Mulattoe complexion
born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar of a cut on the elbow joint of her
right arm about two inches in length occasioned by as she says from the cut of a broad axe
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 31st day of August Anno Domini 1833
                                                                                  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 Maria Kirby 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 mullattoes 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 Joshua Clarke of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Maria
Kirby for whom this certificate is made is free born I do therefore grant her
said application and hereby certify that from her own account she was twenty
nine years of age sometime in October last past five feet three and three quarter
inches high or thereabouts of a bright mulattoe complexion born and raised in
Caroline County and has a small scar on the upper part of her nose and several
small scars of cuts on her fingers and both of her small fingers a little crooked
and has no other notable markes or scars that I have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public
           seal of my office this 2d day of September A. D. 1833
Cost $1.00                                                                  Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                                   Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas heretofore to wit; on the twenty
seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
three a certain Ann Pratt of Caroline County by Deed of manumission duly executed
acknowledged and recorded among the land records of Caroline County aforesaid did
manumit and set free a certain negro woman named Margaret Ruth to be free from
and after the date of the said manumission and the said negro woman named
Margaret Ruth 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 Richard Chambers of Caroline County that the said negro woman


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