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Caroline County Circuit Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1857-1864
Volume 835, Page 75   View pdf image
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Domini Eighteen Hundred and fifty Eight
                                           Robert J Jump Clerk of the
                                           Circuit Court for Caroline County


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:  WHereas on the sixteenth day of July
Anno Domini one thousand Eight hundred and twenty three a certain Ann Pratt
of Caroline County by deed of Manumission duly duly executed acknowledged and
recorded among the land record books of Caroline County did manumit and set
free several negros one called Essex to serve thirty five years from the date of the
aforesaid manumission which time expired on the sixteenth day of July
Eighteen hundred and fifty eight: (now calling himself Essex Red) and the
said negro man named Essex (now calling himself Essex Red) having made
application to me for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the act of assembly
in such case made and Whereas also upon the oath of William Turner of
Caroline County aforesaid that the said negro man named Essex (now calling
himself Essex Red) for whom this certificate is made is the same person
mentioned in the said manumission.  I do therefore grant him said application
and hereby certify that he is now about forty years of age five feet nine inches
high or thereabout of a dark chesnutt complexion and has a scar over the
left eye & one other scar on the forhead and has no other scar that I have
observed.            In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name
    (seal)               and affix the seal of the Circuit Court for Caroline County
                            this twenty fifth day of September Anno Domini 1858
                                                                      Robert J. Jump Clerk
                                                                               of the
                                                        Circuit Court for Caroline County


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