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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 203   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 Ann Maria Carney 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 Testimony of George Reed of Caroline County
that the said negro woman named Ann Maria Carney for whom this Certificate is made was
free born.  I do therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify that she is Thirty three
years of age or thereabouts about five feet five and a half inches high of a molatto complexion
was born and raised in Caroline County and has a scar of a cut on the thick part of her
right arm below the elbow joint and another scar of a burn on the inside of the small of
the same arm and another scar of a burn on the inside over the joint of her left arm and
no other notable mark or scar that I have discovered
             In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the Public
(seal)     seal of my office this 18th day of July Anno Domini 1826
                                                                                  Jo Richardson Clk of
    Cost 50 cents                                                          Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:  Whereas application hath been
made to me by a molatto woman named Jane Dickinson 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 George Reed of Caroline County that the said molatto woman named
Jane Dickinson for whom this Certificate is made was free born.  I do
therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify that she is sixty years
of age or thereabouts about five feet three inches high of a molatto complexion
was born and raised in Caroline County and has the little finger of her
right hand crooked and no other notable mark or scar that I have discovered
             In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the public
(seal)     seal of my office this 18th day of July Anno Domini 1826
                                                                   Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                   Caroline County Court
Cost 50 ct


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