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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 187   View pdf image
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             In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix
(Seal)    the public seal of my office this 14.th day of March
             Anno Domini 1826
                                              Jo Richardson Clk of
             Cost 50 cts               Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline county to wit:  whereas application hath been made
me by a coloured woman named Mahala Scott 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
Sarah Williams of Caroline County that the said coloured woman named Mahala
Scott for whom this Certificate is made was free born.  I do therefore grant her said
application and hereby Certify that she is Seventeen years of age or thereabouts about
five feet high of a complexion nearly black was born and raised in Caroline County
and has a large scar of a burn across her right wrist & a scar of a cut on the inside
of the right wrist joint another scar on her left cheek directly under the eye & 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 14th day
(seal)     of March Anno Domini 1826.   Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court
Cost 50 cts


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas application hath been made to me
by a coloured woman named Nancy Scott 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 Sarah Williams of Caroline County that the
said coloured woman named Nancy Scott of whom this Certificate is made was free
born.  I do therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify that she is sixteen
years of age thereabouts about five feet one inch high of a dark brown complexion
was born and raised in Caroline County has a long scar of a cut on the side of
her left fore finger between the forefinger and the next finger to the fore finger length
with the finger & extending to the top the knuckle and no other notable


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