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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit: Whereas Mary Ellen Anderson hath made application to me for a Certificate of her freedom agreeably to law and whereas on the oath of James Melvin has been proven that said Mary Ellen Anderson was free born and raised in Caroline County. She is now about thirty years of age five feet three and one half inches high or thereabout of a Chesnut Complexion and has a Scar on the back of her neck caused by a burn and has a whitle on the Second finger of her right hand and has no other notable mark or Scar that I have observed In Testimony whereof I hereunto Subscribe my name and affix (Seal) the Seal of the Circuit Court for Caroline County this 21st day of April Anno Domini Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Robert J Jump Clk State of Maryland Caroline County to wit: Whereas heretofore to wit: On the 26th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty a certain John Lumbold late of Caroline County and State of Maryland by a deed of Manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded among the Land record books of Caroline County aforesaid did manumit and set free a certain negro woman named Mary to be free form and after the age of twenty five years. And Whereas application hath been made to me by a negro woman now present calling herself Mary Webb for a Certificate of her freedom agreeably to law. And Whereas on the oath of Matthew Patton has been proven that Said Mary Webb is the same negro woman named in the aforegoing deed of Manumission and now free. I do therefore grant this certificate. She is now about thirty two years of age five feet two inches high or thereabout of a mulatto complexion was born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar on the right side of her neck caused by a cancer and has no other mark or scar that I have observed |
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