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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 161   View pdf image
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said negro man named Andrew Groce for whom this Certificate is made
was free born   I do therefore grant his said application and hereby certify
he is Twenty eight years or thereabouts he is about five feet seven inches
high of a dark molatto complexion was born & raised in Caroline County
and has and has one of his front upper teeth out & one of his under teeth
in front out also: & no other mark or scar that I have observed
             In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the
(seal)     public seal of my office this 10th day of February Anno Domini
1824                                                                  Jo Richardson Clk of
             Cost 50 Cts                                          Caroline County Court


    State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro man named Stephen Loockerman for his 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 Samuel Lecompte of Caroline County that the said negro man named
Stephen Loockerman for whom this certificate is made was free born
       I do therefore grant his said application and hereby Certify that he is five
feet six inches high or thereabouts says he ^was^ twenty years of age the first day of
last December of a complexion nearly black was born and raised in Caroline
County and has a scar on the inside of his left knee caused by a cut 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 26th day of February Anno Domini 1824
Cost 50 Cts                                       Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline Coty Ct


State of Maryland Caroline county to wit;  Whereas application hath been made to me by a
negro man named Richard Caldwell for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the Act of
assembly in such case made and provided by which said act free negroes & molattoes are
permitted to travel out of this state upon the obtention of a certificate of being free born & whereas
also upon the Oath of Andrew Sullivane of Caroline county that the said negro man named
Richard Caldwell for whom this Certificate is made was free born.  I do therefore grant
his said application & hereby certify that he is twenty one years of age in October last
he is about five seven inches high of a complexion nearly black was born & raised
in Caroline County & has a long scar of a burn obliquely across the inside of his
left wrist and another round scar of a burn immediately above the collar bone
on the middle of his neck 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 13th day of March Anno Domini 1824
                                                                      Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                      Caroline County Court
Cost 50 Cts


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