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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 160   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 Caleb Dixon for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to
the act of assembly in such case made and provided 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
Warner Dill of Caroline County that the said molatto man named Caleb
Dixon for whom this Certificate is made was free born.  I do therefore grant
his said application and hereby Certify that he was Nineteen years of
age the 25th day of December 1823 he is five feet nine and a quarter
inches high or thereabouts of a bright molatto complexion was born and
raised in Caroline County and has a scar on the middle joint of the fore
finger of his right hand caused by a cut which partially impares the
use of the joint and no other mark or scar that I have observed
(Caroline)         In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name
( County  )        and affix the public seal of my office this 16th day of
(     seal   )        January Anno Domini 1824
Cost 50 Cts                                                Jo Richardson Clk Caro C. Cout


    State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro boy named Jeremiah Garner for a certificate of his freedom
agreeably to the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided 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 William
Blake of Caroline County that the said negro boy named Jeremiah Garner for whom
this Certificate is made was free born.  I do therefore grant his said application
and hereby Certify that he was nineteen years ^is thirteen years & six months^ of age this he is four feet nine and
three quarter inches high or thereabouts of a dark molatto complexion was born
and raised in Caroline County and has a long scar over the outer corner of the
right eye brow the lower end of which is on a line nearly horisontal with the
corner of the eye and no other mark or scar that I have observed
                In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the public
(seal)        seal of my office this 31st day of December Anno Domini 1823
Cost 50 Cts                                                   Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline Coty Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro man named Andrew Groce for a certificate of his freedom
agreeably to the act of Assembly in such case made and provided 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 Testimony of Joseph Talbott of Caroline county that the



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