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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 189   View pdf image
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that I have discovered.  In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name &
(seal)   affix the public seal of my office this 21st day of March Anno Domini
1826                                    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 Warner Gardner for a Certificate of his freedom agreed
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 John Orrell of
Caroline County that the said coloured man named Warner Gardner for whom
this Certificate is made was free born.  I do therefore grant his said application
and hereby certify that he is five feet nine inches high or thereabouts says he will
be twenty two years of age the first of may next was born and raised in Caroline
County and of a molatto complexion has a scar of a burn on the back of his left
hand and a scar of a cut Crosswise on the top of his right foot 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 my office this
(seal)   31st day of March Anno Domini 1826   Jo Richardson Clk of
Cost 50 cts                                                       Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:  Whereas heretofore to wit on
the Nineteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and two James Satterfield 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 Rachel to be free from and after the date of the said manumission
And the said negro woman named Rachel 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 John Brown of Caroline County that the said negro woman named
Rachel is the same negro woman mentioned in the said manumission
I do therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify


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