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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 92   View pdf image
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account he will be twenty four years of age the twenty second day of Mary Instant
five feet eight and three fourth inches high or thereabouts of a mulatto complexion born
and raised in Caroline County and has a scar of the bite of a dog on the upper part of his
right arm a little below the shoulder joint 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 12th day of May anno Domini 1835
Cost $1.00                                                                        Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                                         Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me by a
coloured boy named Josiah Wright for a certificate of his 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 Joshua Cranor and acknowledged to be free by
his father George Wright in person that the said coloured boy named Josiah Wright
for whom this certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant his said application
and hereby certify that from his own account he was twenty years of age the twenty
seventh day of May Instant five feet eight and one fourth inches high or thereabouts
of a Black Complexion born and raised in Caroline County has a large scar of a cut on the
back of his neck and has no other notable marks or scars that I can discover
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of
           my office this 28th day of May anno Domini 1835
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 Alexander Green for a certificate of his 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
Solomon Glanding of Caroline County that the said negro man named Alexander Green for whom
this certificate is made was 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 five feet
eight and an half inches high or thereabouts of a black complexion was born in
Queen Anns County and raised in Caroline County and has a small scar of a cut
on his left wrist and has no other notable marks or scars that I have observed


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