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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 178   View pdf image
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his age as expressed in the said manumission he is now about the age of
forty eight he is about five feet seven and a half inches high of a light brown
complexion was born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar on
the under part of his right arm near his elbow and a nother scar on
his left leg a little below the knee and some other small scars & marks
on his legs not worth discribing               In Testimony whereof I
hereto subscribe my name & affix the public seal of my office this 25th
day of June Anno Domini 1825   Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline
(seal)                                                county Court
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;   Whereas application
hath been made to me by a molatto woman named Ann Wisher
for a Certificate of her 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 Mary Cecil of Caroline County that the said molatto woman
named Ann Wisher for whom this Certificate is made was free
born.  I do therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify
that she is Twenty two years of age or thereabouts about five feet
one & a half inches high of a molatto complexion was born and
raised in Caroline County and has a small scar of a cut in
the outer corner of her left eye brow and no other notable mark or
scar that I have discovered                        In Testimony whereof
           I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of
(seal)   my office this 5th day of July Anno Domini 1825
                                  Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:  Whereas heretofore to wit:
on the Tenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty four a certain John Carter of Caroline County
by deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded
among the land records of Caroline County did manumit & set free
a certain negro woman named Sarah to be free and at perfect
liberty from and after the date of the said manumission


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