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165 State of Maryland Caroline County to wit: Whereas on the thirty first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twenty two Joshua Lucas 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 same 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 Oath of Charles Turner 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 two years of age or thereabouts the thirty first day of May last past she is about five feet three and three quarter inches high of a complexion nearly black was born and raised in Caroline County and has two small scars on her left arm near midway between the wrist and elbow; one on the outside and the other on the inside nearly opposite to each other and on the under part of the arm 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 27th day of July Anno Domini [seal] 1824 Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court Cost 50 Cents State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me by a coloured man named Emory Ash 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 Nathan Heneter of Caroline county that the said coloured man named Emory Ash for whom this Certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant his said application and hereby Certify that he is five feet nine inches high or thereabouts about Twenty two years of age was born and raised in Caroline County of a dark brown complexion has a scar on the under part of the left wrist a small scar on the upper part of the left arm between the shoulder & elbow and another scar on the right hand above the knuckle of the fore finger and no other notable mark or scar that I have observed. In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the public seal (seal) of my office this 28th day of July Anno Domini 1824 Cost 50 cts Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court |
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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
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