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192 James M.cJune of Caroline county that the said negro man named Jesse is the same person mentioned in the said manumission. I do therefore grant his said application and hereby certify (that from his age as expressed in the said manumission he is forty five years of age was born and raised in Caroline county of a black complexion about five feet eight and three quarter inches high considerably marked in the face with the small pox has six small scars on his left hand and wrist & two small scars on his right wrist the smallest one on the top of the wrist joint & the longest on the upper part of the knuckle bone of the wrist another long scar above and nearly parallel with his left eye brow and another scar on his left breast caused by a bite in fighting another scar on his under lip & another scar behind his right ear and no other marks or scars that I have discovered In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the public (seal) seal of my office this 21st day of april Anno Domini 1826 Cost 50 cts Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court The negro Jesse above described made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he lost the certificate of ^his^ freedom heretofore obtained from this office and that he did not give it away sell it or otherwise convey it to or for the use and benefit of any other negro or person of colour State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me by a coloured man named Henry Friend 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 of my own personal knowledge that the said Henry Friend for whom the Certificate is made was free born. I do therefore grant his said application and hereby Certify that he is five feet nine and a half inches high or thereabouts says he was forty five years of age the fourth day of April instant was born and raised in Caroline County of a black complexion has a scar of a cut nearly perpendicular and near the Corner of his right eye and marks of a cut across between the middle and end joints of the two middle fingers of his right hand and a scar of a cut on the big toe joint of his right foot and another mark of a cut on his right leg and no other notable mark or scar that I have discovered |
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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
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