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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 217   View pdf image
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left hand in a range with the little finger 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 twenty seventh day of September
(seal)   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 to me by a coloured man named Wilmer Reed 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 mollattoes 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 James M. Guire of Caroline County
that the said coloured man named Wilmer Reed for whom this
certificate is made was free born.  I do therefore grant his said application
and hereby certify that he is five feet seven inches high or thereabouts
says he will be Fifty years of age the 14th day of October instant born and
raised in Caroline County and of a ^dark^ molatto Complexion has a small
scar in the corner of his right eye and a tollerable large scar of a bite on the
inside of his right arm below the elbow joint and several scars on the out
side of the right knee joint 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 7th day of October
(seal)        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 Coloured woman named Catherine Reed 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 mollattoes are
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 Elizabeth Satterfield
of Caroline County that the said Coloured woman named Catherine
Reed for whom this certificate is made was free born  I do therefore
grant her said application and hereby certify that she is Forty


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