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85 State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me by a negro woman named Arian Kennady 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 Stephen J. Bradley of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Arian Kennady 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 is between twenty eight and twenty nine years of age five feet and three inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County of a mulatto complexion has a small scar of a cut between the second and third joints of her right fore 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 28th day of April Anno Domini 1834 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 Henry Downe's 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 oath of John W Williams of Caroline County that the said negro man named Henry Downe's for whom the certificate is made is free born; I do therefore grant his said application and hereby certify that from his own account he was twenty one years of age the fourth day of July Instant five feet nine and three quarter inches high or thereabouts of a black complexion was born and raised in Caroline County has a large scar of a cut on the back of his right hand and another large scar of a cut on his outward left ancle 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 15th day of July Anno Domini 1834 Cost $1.00 Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court |
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