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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 108   View pdf image
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obtention of a certificate of their being free born.  And whereas also
upon the oath of James Harrisson that the said negro John
Hynson was free born.  I do therefore hereby certify that the
said negro John Hynson is five feet eight & a quarter inches
high or thereabouts says he is twenty one years of age in June
next of a dark molatto or brown complexion was born & raised
in Caroline county has a scar on the knuckle joint of right
fore finger and the middle finger of his right hand crooked
in the knuckle joint so that he cant straighten it as he can
the other fingers of the same hand and no other notable
mark that I have observed
                      In Testimony whereof I have hereto set
    (seal)   my hand affixed the public seal of my Office this
               27.th day of April anno Domini 1818
                                                       Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                       Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline county to wit  Whereas heretofore
to wit on the fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen a certain Richard Hughlett a
of Caroline county aforesaid by deed of Manumission duly executed
& recorded did manumit & set free a certain negro man
called Benjamin Seney has made 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 the said Richard Hughlett that the
said negro man Benjamin Seney for whom this certificate
is made is the identical negro man mentioned in the said
manumission do ^therefore^ grant his said application and hereby
certify that the said negro man Benjamin Seney is five




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