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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 181   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:  Whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro woman named Sarah Jolly 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 Arthur Stevens of Caroline County that the
said negro woman named Sarah Jolly for whom this Certificate is made
was free born.  I do therefore grant her said application and hereby certify
that she was sixteen years of Age in May last she is about five
feet two inches high of a dark brown complexion was born and raised
in Caroline County and has a scar (about an inch & a half long) across
the back part of her left arm and no other notable mark or scar that
I have discovered      In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
             my name & affix the Public seal of my office this 28th day
(seal)     of September Anno Domini 1825      Jo Richardson Clk of
Cost 50 Cts                                                   Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas on the twentieth day of
January in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixteen a
certain John Lucas 3d by deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged &
recorded among the land records of Caroline County did manumit and set free
from and after the date of the said manumission a certain negro woman
named Fan, And the said negro woman 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 Samuel Lucas of Caroline County
that the said negro woman named Fan 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 from the age expressed
in the said manumission) she is about forty five years about five feet six
inches high of a dark brown complexion was born in Coceil County and
raised in Caroline County & has a small scar on the back of her right
hand and the little finger of the same hand crooked and no other



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