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Caroline County Circuit Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1857-1864
Volume 835, Page 45   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:  Whereas heretofore to wit:
on the 18th day of June Eighteen hundred and fifty eight a
certain Jacob Charles of the County and state aforesaid 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 man named
Moses Coulbourn to be free from and after the 31st day of
December Eighteen hundred and fifty eight.   And whereas
application hath been made to me by a negro man now
present calling himself Moses Coulbourn for a certificate
of his freedom agreeably to law.  And whereas on the Oath of
William H Charles has been proven that said Moses Coulbourn
is the same negro man named in the aforegoing deed of
manumission and now free.  I do therefore grant this certificate
he is now about forty two years of age five feet and eleven
inches high or thereabout of a black Complexion was born
and raised in Caroline County and has a scar on the
back of the right hand and has no other notable mark or scar
that I have observed
            In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my
(seal)    name and affix the seal of Circuit Court for
            Caroline County this 21st day of March A D 1860
                                                 Robert J Jump Clk


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