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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 169   View pdf image
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(seal) left wrist and no other mark or scar that I have observed.  In Testimony whereof
I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my office this 29th day of
October Anno Domini 1824      Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline county to wit;  Whereas heretofore to wit; on the twenty third
day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety
nine a certain Sarah Hardcastle and Solomon Kenton 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 Ebbi
to be free and at perfect liberty on the first day of January eighteen hundred and
nine and the said negro woman named Ebbi 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 on the oath of Jabez Caldwell of Caroline county
that the said negro woman named Ebbi 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 is forty four years of age or thereabouts
she is about five feet one and a half inches hugh of a dark molatto complexion
was born and raised in Talbot County and has a large scar of a burn on
the back of her right hand 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 29th day of October Anno Domini 1824
                                                    Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  whereas application hath been made to
me by a coloured woman named Ann Groce for a Certificate of her freedom agreeably
to the Act of Assembly in such case made & 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 John C. Talbott of Caroline County
that the said coloured woman named Ann Groce for whom this Certificate is made
was free born.  I do therefore grant her said application & hereby Certify that she is
four feet ten & three quarter inches high or thereabouts she is about Eighteen
years of age was born and raised in Caroline County of a complexion nearly
black and has a small mark nearly perpendicular between her eye brows
& 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 11th day of November Anno Domini
                1824                                                      Jo Richardson Clk
Cost 50 Cts                                                            of Caroline County Court


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