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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 103   View pdf image
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seal of my office this ninth day of September anno Domini
Eighteen hundred and seventeen          Jo Richardson Clk
                                                          Caroline County Court


Maryland Caroline County to wit

Whereas heretofore to wit on the twenty sixth day of January Eighteen
hundred and four Susan Sangston of Caroline County by deed
of manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded amongst
the records of Caroline County did manumit and set free a
negro Girl named Diner to be free on the first day of May
Eighteen hundred and fifteen as it appears of record.  And
whereas also the said negro woman named Diner hath made
application to me for a Certificate of her freedom agreeably to
the act of assembly in such case made and provided and I
being satisfied by the oath of James Sangston of the County
afs.d that the said negro woman named Diner for whom this
Certificate is made is the Identical person mentioned in the
said manumission  I do therefore grant her said application
and hereby certify that from the age expressed in the said
manumission she is twenty nine years old or thereabout she
is five feet high or thereabout was raised in Caroline
County she is tolerably black and chunky has tolerable
thick lips and has a roundish scar above the elbow on the
right arm and no other notable marks that I have seen
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand
           and affixed the public seal of my office this twenty fifth
           day of september Anno Domini Eighteen hundred
           and seventeen                        Jo Richardson Clk


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