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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 86   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath
been made to me by a negro man named Alexander Hutchins 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 travel out of this state upon the obtention of a certificate
of being free born and whereas also upon the oath of Nehemiah
Saulsbury of Caroline County that the said negro man named Alexander
Hutchins for whom this certificate is made is free born; I do therefore
grant his said application and hereby certify that from his own
account he was twenty three years of age in March last past
five feet three and one half inches high or thereabouts of a dark mulattoe
Complexion was born and raised in Caroline County and has a small
Scar of a cut on his right wrist and a small scar on his left leg just
below his knee joint and another small scar just under his under
lip 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 16th day of July Anno
             Domini 1834                                       Jo Richardson  Clk of
Cost $1.00                                                       Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit; on the sixth
day of June in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and ninety six a certain
Nathaniel Potter and William Potter of Caroline County by Deed of Manumission duly
executed acknowledged and recorded among the land records of Caroline County
did manumit and set free a certain negro woman named Sarah (now calling
herself Sarah Shepperd) to be free from and after the first day of October
eighteen hundred and five and the said negro woman named Sarah (now calling
herself Sarah Shepperd) 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 my own personal knowledge that the said negro woman
named Sarah (now calling herself Sarah Shepperd) for whom this certificate is
made is the same person mentioned in the said manumission I do therefore
grant her said application and hereby certify that from her own account she


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