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105 State of Maryland Caroline County to wit Whereas application hath been made to me by a Molatto man named Perre Ash for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to an act of assembly of the said State passed at November Session Eighteen hundred and five by which said act free negroes & Molattoes are permitted to travel out of the said state upon their obtention of a certificate of their being free born. And whereas also upon the oath of George Sewel of the County aforesaid that the said mollatto man named Pere Ash was free born I do therefore hereby certify that the said molatto man named Pere Ash is five feet eight inches high or thereabouts of a dark molatto complexion was born and raised in Caroline County aforesaid & says he is about thirty five or thirty six years of age. And has no other particular marks which I can discover In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed (Seal) the public seal of my Office this seventeenth day of March Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and eighteen Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court State of Maryland Caroline County to wit Whereas heretofore to wit On the eighth day of July in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and five a certain Thomas Orem of Caroline County aforesaid by deed of manumission duly executed and recorded did manumit and set free a certain negro lad called Levin to be at liberty from and after the first day of January One thousand eight hundred and eighteen. And whereas the said negro Levin 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 from the oath of Hugh Taylor that the said negro Levin from whom this certificate is made is the identical negro Levin mentioned in the said manumission do therefore grant his said application and hereby certify that the said negro Levin is five feet eight inches high or thereabouts of a dark complexion and from his own account (his age not being mentioned in the aforesaid manumission) is about twenty five years of age the said negro Levin has a small scar a little broken extending in a direction nearly perpendicular from above his right eye brow towards the top of his forehead another small scar or mark on his left Cheek rather darker than the general colour of his face and nearly on a line drawn from the left corner of his mouth to the lower part of his left ear and another small scar above the second joint of his left thumb crossing towards the third joint of his fore finger and no other notable mark which |
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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
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