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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 100   View pdf image
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(seal)   In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and
           affixed the public seal of my office this first day of July
           anno Domini 1817
                                                                Jo Richardson Clk
                                                                Caroline County Court


          Maryland Caroline County to wit

    Whereas on the twenty second day of the seventh month one thousand
seven hundred and ninety six Ann Harrington by deed of
manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded amongst
the records of Caroline County did manumit and set free a
negro boy named Peter to be free on the first day of the first
month anno Domini Eighteen hundred and seventeen.   And
whereas the said Peter has made application to me for a certificate
of his freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case
made and provided and I being satisfied by the oath of John
Carter Esquire of the County aforesaid that the said negro man
named Peter for whom this certificate is made is the Identical
person mentioned in said manumission.  I do therefore grant
his said application and hereby certify that he is five feet
two inches and half an inch high or thereabout was raised
in Caroline County is of a dark complexion  there is no
age expressed in the manumission supposed to be twenty
four or twenty five years old tolerably well built and has
no very notable marks that I have discovered
    (seal)   In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my
               hand and affixed the public seal of my office this
          twenty ninth day of August Anno Domini Eighteen hundred
          and seventeen
                                                          Jo Richardson Clk
                                                          Caroline County Court


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