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Caroline County Circuit Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1857-1864
Volume 835, Page 121   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:  Whereas
Martha Jane Cooper hath made application to me for a
Certificate of his freedom agreeably to law:  and whereas on
the Oath of James Swan hath been proven that said Martha
Jane Cooper was free born.  I do She is now about nineteen
Years of age five feet high or thereabouts of a Mulatto Complexion
was born and raised in Caroline County and has no
notable mark or scars that I have observed
           In Testimony whereof I hereunto Subscribe my name and
(seal)   affix the Seal of the Circuit Court for Caroline County
      this twenty fifth day of September Anno Domini Eighteen
    Hundred and Sixty
                                                             Robt. J. Jump Clerk
                                                                         of the
                                                 Circuit Court for Caroline Co.


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:  Whereas heretofore
to wit:  On the 28th day of May 1828 a certain Joseph
Talbot of Caroline County and State of Maryland by a deed of
Manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded among the Land
record books for Caroline County aforesaid did manumit and set free
a certain negro woman named Henrietta Mackey to be free from
and after the first day of January Eighteen Hundred and forty two
And whereas application hath been made to me by a negro woman
now present Calling herself Henrietta Shepard for a Certificate of her
freedom agreeably to law and whereas on the oath of James Swan
hath been proven that said Henrietta Shepard is the same negro
woman named in the aforegoing deed of Manumission and is now
free  I do therefore grant this Certificate  She is now about


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Caroline County Circuit Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1857-1864
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