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99 State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me by a negro woman named Mary Baynard for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the acts of assembly in such cases made and provided by which said act free negroes and mulattoe's 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 Nathan Whitby of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Mary Baynard 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 was twenty two years of age on the eighth day of April last five feet and three quaters of an inch high or thereabouts of a Black Complexion born and raised in Caroline County and has a tolerable large scar on the outer part of her right leg occasioned from the cut of a scythe and no other notable marks or scars that I have observed In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix (seal) the public seal of my office this tenth day of May Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and thirty six Jo Richardson Clk of $1.00 Caroline County Court State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me by a negro woman named Keziah Dawson for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the acts of assembly in such cases 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 Elizabeth Willoughby of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Keziah Willoughby 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 thirty two years of age five feet one and a half inches high or thereabouts of a Black Complexion born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar of a cut under her left eye and another small scar on her left arm just above the elbow joint 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 tenth day of May anno Domini Eighteen hundred and thirty six Jo Richardson Clk of Cost $1.00 Caroline County Court |
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