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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 118   View pdf image
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    State of maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application
hath been made to me by a molatto boy named Joseph
Trusty for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to an act of the
General assembly of maryland passed at November Session eighteen
hundred and five by which said act free negroes and molattoes
are permitted to travel out of this State upon their obtention of
certificate of being free born.  And whereas also upon the affirmation
of Joseph Anthony of Caroline County aforesaid that
the said molatto boy Joseph Trusty for whom this certificate is
made was free born I do therefore grant his said application
and hereby certify that he is three feet four inches high or
thereabouts was three years of age the twenty fifth day of
March eighteen hundred and eighteen of a molatto complexion
was born in Caroline County has the mark of a burn on
his back between the shoulders and rather nearest to the
right shoulder and no other notable mark or scar that
I have observed
                         In Testimony whereof I have hereto set
                      my hand and affixed the public seal of my
(Seal)             office this 27.th day of July Anno Domini
                         1818
                      Jo Richardson Clerk of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline county to wit.  Whereas heretofore
to wit on the second day of June in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and two a certain Charles Blair
of Caroline county aforesaid by deed of manumission duly
executed and recorded did manumit and set free a certain
negro boy called Stephen to be free and at liberty on the
first day of January eighteen hundred and seventeen
And whereas the same negro boy (now a man) called
Stephen has made application to me for a certificate
of his freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such


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