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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 136   View pdf image
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mentioned in the said manumission I do therefore grant his said
application and hereby certify that from the age expressed in the
manumission the said Daniel was twenty five years of age or
thereabouts on the second day of June last past he is about
five feet four and a half inches high of a dark brown complexion
was born in Caroline and raised in Talbot county
and has no particular or remarkable scar or mark that I have
observed
                In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix
(seal)        the seal of my office this 3d day of January Anno Domini
                 1820                                       Jo Richardson Clerk of
                                                                Caroline county court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit      Whereas heretofore to wit
on the eighth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
three a certain William Webb of Caroline County aforesaid by deed of manumission
duly executed and recorded did manumit & set free a certain negro boy
named Aurther to be free and at liberty on the first day of January eighteen
hundred and twenty; And whereas the said negro boy named Arthur
(now a man calling himself Arthur Howard) hath made application
to me for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the Act of Assembly in such
case made and provided and being satisfied of my own knowledge and by
the Testimony of Col.o William Potter of the county aforesaid that the said
negro man named Arthur for whom this certificate is made is the
Identical person mentioned in the said manumission I do therefore
grant his said Application and hereby certify that from the age expressed
in the said manumission the said Arthur is about twenty five years
of age five feet and three quarters of an inch high or thereabouts
of a blackish complexion was born and raised in Caroline County
has a small scar on his right cheek and several small scars
on his forehead and no other particular or notable scar or mark
that I have observed
                         In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand
    (seal)         and affix my ^the^ seal of my office this 16th day of
                     February Anno Domini 1820
                                                                Jo Richardson Clk
                                                                of Car.o Coty court


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