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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 183   View pdf image
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I do therefore grant her said application and hereby certify that she is five
feet four and a quarter inches high or thereabouts says she was Twenty nine
years of age the Twentieth day of June last born and raised in Caroline
County of a molatto complexion and has a black mole on her right temple
and no other notable mark or scar that I have discovered.  In Testimony
[seal]   whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my
            office this 25th day of November Anno Domini 1825
Cost 50 cts                  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 Ruth Philips 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 James Richardson of Caroline County that the said
Coloured woman named Ruth Philips for whom this Certificate is made
was free born.  I do therefore grant her said application and hereby certify
that she is five feet three and a half inches high or thereabouts says she
is about twenty three years of age of a molatto complexion was born and
raised in Caroline County and has a black mole on the right side of her
neck and no other remarkable scar that I have discovered.  In
(seal)   Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the public seal
of my office this 29th day of November Anno Domini 1825
Cost 50 cts                  Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas application hath been made
to me by a coloured man named William Philips 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 James Richardson of Caroline County that the said coloured
woman named William Philips was free born.  I do therefore grant


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