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Caroline County Circuit Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1857-1864
Volume 835, Page 98   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:   Whereas heretofore to wit:
On the 27th day of June Eighteen Hundred and forty two a certain
Robert Bishop of the County and State aforesaid by 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 boy named Frederick born on the eleventh day of July
Eighteen Hundred and thirty four to be free when he shall attain
the age of twenty five years.  And whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro man now present calling himself Frederick
Miers for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to law and whereas
on the Oath of John R. Fountain has been proven that said
Frederick Miers is the same boy Frederick named in the aforegoing
deed of Manumission and now free.  I do therefore grant this Certificate
he is now about twenty Six years of age five feet and one half
inches high or thereabout of chestnut Complexion was born and raised
in Caroline County and has no mark or Scars that I have
observed
(Seal)   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name
            and affixed the Seal of the Circuit Court for Caroline County
this 15th day of February A. D. 1860
                                                                  Robert J. Jump Clk


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