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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 95   View pdf image
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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 negro woman named Susan Elizabeth Byas 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 Margaret
Lecompte of the County aforesaid that the said negro woman named Susan Elizabeth
Byas for whom this certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant her said
application and hereby certify that from her own account she is about eighteen
years of age five feet four and one fourth inches high or thereabouts of a black
complexion was born and raised in Caroline County and has a large scar on
her left leg just above the ankle 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 26th day of August 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 negro man named Joshua Adams 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 Abel Gowty of Caroline County that the said negro man
named Joshua Adams 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 is
now about twenty four years of age five feet six and a quarter inches high or
thereabouts of a dark mulattoe Complexion born and raised in Caroline County
and his several large scars on his left leg occasioned by the cut from a harrow
flook and3 one other small scar of a cut on the right side of his nose just at the
end and another small scar on his left jaw occasioned by the tooth ache and no
other notable marks or scars that I have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the



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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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