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Caroline County Circuit Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1857-1864
Volume 835, Page 4   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:   Whereas heretofore
to wit: on the 19th day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and eighteen a certain Richard Chambers of the County
and state aforesaid by deed of Manumission duly executed
acknowledged and recorded among the land records of
Caroline County aforesaid did manumit and set free a certain
negro woman named Ann provided the said Ann should
serve fourteen years from the date of said manumission
and if during the period of said servitude of the said Ann
she should have any issue of her body if female to serve
untill 20 years of age and if males to serve until 21 years
of age   And whereas application made to me by a negro
now present calling himself John H Robinson for a certificate
of her freedom agreeably to law and whereas on the
oath of Thomas Bell has been proven that said John H
Robinson is a child of the aforesaid Ann and now
free.  I do therefore grant this certificate he is now about
thirty one years of age five feet five inches high or thereabout
of a dark chesnutt complexion was born and
raised in Caroline County and has no scar or mark
that I have observed
                        In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe
                        my name and affix the seal
    (seal)            of the Circuit Court for Caroline County
                        this 6th day of January A D 1858
                                        Robert J Jump Clk



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