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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 205   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas heretofore to wit:  On the Twenty fourth
day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one a certain
WIlliam Poets 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 Sarah to be free and at perfect liberty immediately
after the date of the said manumission.  And the said negro woman named Sarah
now calling herself Sarah Jackson having made application to me for a
Certificate of her freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case made &
provided:  And whereas also upon the affirmation of Moses Boon of Caroline
County that the said negro woman named Sarah Jackson for whom this
Certificate is made is the same person mentioned in the said manumission
I do therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify that from his
age as expressed in the said manumission she was forty seven years of
age the ^twenty^ sixth day of January last about five feet & an half inch high
born & raised in Caroline County and of a black complexion has a
long crooked scar on her forehead above the inner part of her left eye
and a round natural mark under the outer corner of the same eye
& no other notable mark or scar that I have discovered
             In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix
(seal)     the public seal of my office this 24th day of July Anno Domini
              1826   Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:  Whereas application hath been made
to me by a negro woman named Rhoda Tilghman 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 John Talbott of Caroline County that the said negro woman
named Rhoda TIlghman for whom this Certificate is made was free born
I do therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify that she is about
twenty years of age about five feet four and a quarter inches high of a
dark brown complexion was born and raised in Caroline County and
has a scar of a cut on the thick part of her left arm about three inches below
the elbow & several other scars on the same arm & no other particular
marks or scars that I have discovered.   In Testimony whereof I
hereto subscribe my name & affix the public seal of my office
this 25th day of July Anno Domini 1826
(seal)                                       Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                   Caroline County Court
cost 50 cts


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