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Caroline County Circuit Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1857-1864
Volume 835, Page 17   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:
             Whereas Eliza Cooper hath made application
to me for a Certificate of her freedom agreeably to Law
and whereas on the affirmation of Samuel Dunning
has been proven that the said Eliza Cooper was free
born      I do therefore grant his Certificate she is now
about forty four years of age five feet high or thereabout
of a Chestnutt Complexion was born and raised in
Caroline County and has a Crooked finger on the left
hand the finger nixt next to the little finger & has
no other that I have observed
                   I Testimony whereof I hereto Subscribe my
    (Seal)      name and affix the Seal of the Circuit Court
                   for Caroline County the ninteenth day of
                   October Anno Domini 1858
                               Robt J Jump Clk


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:   Whereas on the Sixteenth
day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and
twenty Six a certain James Turner of Caroline County by deed of
Manumission duly recorded executed acknowledged and recorded
among the land records of Caroline County did manumit and set free
a certain negro man named Pollidore (now calling himself Polliam
Holmes) to be free after he arrived to the age of twenty eight years of age
and the said negro man named Pollidore (now calling himself
Pollidore Holmes) having made application to me for a certificate of
his freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case made
and wheareas also upon the affirmation of John R Stack of Caroline


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