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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 134   View pdf image
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manumission I do therefore grant her said application and hereby
certify that the said negro woman Tilly is five feet one inch & a half
inch high or thereabouts and from the age expressed in the said deed of
manumission she will be twenty six years of age on the fourth day
of January in the year eighteen hundred and twenty her complexion
is molatto she was born and raised in Caroline county aforesaid and
has no notable mark or scar that I have observed
          In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix
(seal)  the public seal of my office this 3.d day of September Anno
           Domini 1819                              Jo Richardson Clerk of
                                                                   Caroline county court


State of Maryland Caroline county to wit;   Whereas application hath
been made to me by a molatto man named Cato Casson 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 & Molattoes are permitted to travel out of
this State upon their obtention of a certificate of being free born
and whereas also upon the Oath of Matthew Driver of Caroline
county aforesaid that the said Molatto man named Cato Casson
for whom this certificate is made was free born.  I do therefore
grant his said application and hereby certify that he is five feet
five inches high or thereabouts   says he ^will be^ twenty four years
of age in March in the year eighteen hundred and twenty
of a molatto complexion was born and raised in Caroline county
and has not any notable mark or scar that I have observed
          In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and
(seal)  affix the public seal of my office this 18th day of October
          Anno Domini 1819                  Jo Richardson Clerk of
                                                          Caroline county court


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