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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 137   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas application
hath been made to me by a molatto man named SAmuel Pagett
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 Stephen Wing
and Testimony of John Young of Caroline County aforesaid that
the said molatto man named Samuel Pagett for whom this
certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant his said
application and hereby Certify that he is five feet nine and a
half inches high or thereabouts   about twenty one years of age
was born and raised in Caroline County has a small scar on
his left fore finger between the knuckle and hand joints and
no other notable scar or mark that I have observed
                   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my
    (seal)       name and affix the public seal of my office this
                   fifth day of June Anno Domini 1820
                                              Jo Richardson Clk of
                                              Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas application hath
been made to me by a molatto man named William Downes 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 Benjamin Drury of
Talbot county that the said molatto man named William Downes for whom
this certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant his said application
and hereby certify that he is five feet and seven Inches high or thereabouts
about Twenty two years of age the 1.st day of September in the year
eighteen hundred and twenty was born in Caroline county & raised in
Talbot county of a bright molatto complexion has a small scar on the
knuckle joint of the little finger of the left hand and a small scar
on the knuckle Joint of the finger next to the little finger of the


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