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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 138   View pdf image
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right hand and no other notable scar or mark that I have observed
            In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and
(Seal)   affix the Public seal of my office this seventh day of
            August Anno Domini 1820         Jo Richardson Clk
                                                      of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:  Whereas on the eighth day of
February in the year eighteen hundred and three William Webb of Caroline
County by deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded amongst
the records of Caroline County did manumit and set free a certain
negro girl named Maria to be free on the first day of January Eighteen
hundred and twenty.  And whereas the said negro girl named Maria
hath made application to me for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the
act of assembly in such case made and provided and being satisfied by the
Oath of Elyah Satterfield of the County aforesaid that the said negro girl named
Maria for whom this Certificate is made is the same person mentioned in the
said manumission I do therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify
that from the age expressed in the said manumission the said Maria
was twenty two years of age or there abouts on the eighth day of February
last past she is about five feet two inches high of a dark brown Complexion
was born and raised in Caroline County has a small scar on the upper
part of her left arm above the elbow joint caused by a burn and a small
scar on her right hand near the joint of her fore finger and no other particular
mark or scar that I have discovered
    (Caroline)              In Testimony whereof I hereto Subscribe my name
    ( County )              & affix the seal of my office this 26.th day of September
    (    seal   )              Anno Domini 1820                      Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                                    Caroline County Court


    State of Maryland Caroline County to wit   Whereas on the 25.th day
of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety
nine John Hooper of Caroline County by deed of manumission duly executed
acknowledged and recorded amongst the records of Caroline County did manumit
and set free a certain negro girl named Rachel to be free from the
date of the said manumission and whereas the said negro girl named
Rachel hath made application to me for a certificate of her freedom agreeably
to the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided and being
satisfied by the Oath of Robert Pippin of the County aforesaid that the said


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