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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 87   View pdf image
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is about forty eight years of age born and raised in Caroline County of a dark
mulatto complexion five feet one and a half inches high or thereabouts has a
small scar of a cut on her left wrist 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 22.d day of July Anno Domini 1834         Jo Richardson  Clk of
Cost $1.00                                                                              Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to
me by a negro woman named Fanny Roberts for a certificate of her freedom agreeably
to the acts 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
Saulsbury of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Fanny Roberts
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 eighteen years of age in October
last past five feet and three inches high or thereabouts of a mulattoe complexion
was born and raised in Caroline County and has a small scar of a burn on
her right arm and a small black mole in the palm of her right hand and
another small one on her left shoulder and has no other notable markes or
scars that I have observed      In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
(seal)   my name and affix the public seal of my office this 12th day of
           August Anno Domini 1834
Cost $1.00                                                     Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                       Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit; on the twelfth
day of June in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and ninety a certain Solomon
Kenton 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 man named Charles now calling himself Charles Downes to be free
from and after the first day of January Eighteen hundred and five and the said negro
man named Charles now calling himself Charles Downes having made application
to me for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case


 
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