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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit: Whereas Clarrissa Rich
hath made application to me for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to law: and whereas on the oath of George Washington Vincent hath been proven that said Clarrissa Rich was free born. I do therefore grant this Certificate. She is now about thirty five years of age five feet and one inch high or thereabout of a Black Complexion was born and raised in Caroline County & has her face marked with the small pox & has no other mark or Scar that I have observed In Testimony whereof I hereto Subscribe my name and affix the Seal of the (Seal) Circuit Court for Caroline County this 22.nd day of May Anno Domini 1860 Richard J Jump Clerk State of Maryland Caroline County. Whereas on the Sixth day of March Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and thirty seven a certain Peter Tokely of Caroline County by Bill of Sale duly executed acknowledged and recorded in one of the Land record books for Caroline County did manumit by Bill of Sale two negroes one called Charles Emory Tokely to serve twenty three years which time expired on the 15th day of January 1859. And whereas application hath been made to me for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to law: and whereas on the Oath of Charles H. Todd hath been proven that said Charles Emory Tokely is the same negro mentioned in the Bill of Sale. I do therefore grant this certificate. He is now about thirty one years of age five feet three and one quarter inches high or thereabout of a Black complexion was born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar over his left eye caused by the Cut of a Oyster shell & has three on the black of his hand and has no other mark or scar that I have observed. In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribed my (Seal) name and affix the Seal of the Circuit Court for Caroline County this twenty ninth day of May Anno Domini Eighteen hundred & Sixty Robert J Jump Clerk of the Circuit Court for Caroline County |
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