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159 State of Maryland Caroline county to wit; whereas on the Twenty ninth day of October Eighteen hundred and twenty three James Satterfield negro of Caroline county by deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded among the Land records of Caroline County did manumit and set free a certain negro woman named Hannah to be free from the date of the said manumission and the said negro woman named Hannah having made application to me for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case made and provided And whereas also upon the testimony of William Cleffinch of Caroline County that the said negro woman named Hannah 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 she was thirty four years of age or thereabouts on the first day of May last she is about five feet high of a molatto complexion was born and raised in Caroline County and has a small scar over her left eye Brow and nearly paralel with the eyebrow a tollerably long scar on the inside of her right wrist and nearly lengthwise the wrist and another long^er^ scar across the upper part of the small of her right arm and no other remarkable scar or mark that I have observed In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the public seal (seal) of my office this 29th day of October Anno Domini 1823 Jo Richardson Clk Caroline County Court State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas on the third day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one Eleanore Causey 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 called Bob to be free when he should arive at the age of twenty five years and the said negro man called Bob 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 Oath of Arthur Connelley of Caroline County that the said negro man called Bob 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 from his age as expressed in the said manumission he will be twenty six years of age the Eleventh day of December next he is about five feet eight inches high of a complexion nearly black was born and raised in Caroline County & has a large scar across the small of his left leg and no other mark or scar that I have observed In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the public seal of my office this 18th Day of November Anno Domini (seal) 1823 Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline Coty Cot |
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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
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