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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 149   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made
to me by a coloured girl named Elizabeth Hutchins for a certificate of her freedom agreeably
to an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland passed at December session Eighteen
hundred and five by which said Act free negroes and molattoes are permitted to travel
out of this state upon the obtention of a certificate of being free born and whereas also
upon the Oath of Tapenas Virdin   of Caroline County that the said negro girl
named Elizabeth Hutchins for whom this Certificate is made was free born
       I do therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify that she is Seventeen
years of age the 28th of December 1822 or thereabouts she is about five feet ten and
and a quarter inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County has a
scar on her right arm rather on the upper part thereof between three and four inches
from her elbow and no other notable marks or scar that I have observed
          In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public
(seal)  seal of my office this seventh day of September Anno Domini 1822
                                                                            Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                            Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline county to wit;  Whereas on the Twenty
seventh day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixteen James Pearce of Caroline county by deed of manumission duly
executed acknowledged and recorded amongst the land records of Caroline county
did manumit and set free a certain negro man named Thomas Berry ti be
free on the Twenty seventh day of February Eighteen hundred and Twenty
and the said negro man named Thomas Berry; having made application to me
for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the Act of Assembly in such
case made and provided and whereas also upon the Testimony of
Thomas Wyatt of Caroline County that the said negro man named Thomas
Berry for whom this Certificate is made is the same person mentioned in
the said manumission, I do therefore grant his said application and
hereby Certify that the said negro man named Thomas Berry is forty
three years of age or thereabouts he is about five feet ten inches high
of a molatto complexion was born and raised in Caecil county & has
a scar on his right eye brow extending up his forehead and no other
mark or scar that I have observed
           In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public
(seal)   seal of my Office this 29th day of October Anno Domini 1822
                                                                      Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                      Caroline County Court


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