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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 227   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit:  Whereas application hath
been made to me by a coloured man named James Henry for a certificate
of his freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such cases
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 William Orrell of Caroline
County that the said coloured man named James Henry for whom this
Certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant his said application
and hereby Certify that he is five feet five and a fourth inches
high or thereabouts about twenty five years of age was born and raised in
Caroline County and of a black complexion has two scars on his forehead
above his left eye and another scar on his upper lip under his left
nostril and another scar on the back of his ^left^ hand and another scar cross
on the under part of his left arm above the wrist and no other notable
marks or scars that I have observed   In Testimony whereof I hereto
           subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my office this
(seal)   8th day of May anno Domini 1827      Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                                      Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas heretofore to wit on the
Nineteenth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and
twenty two a certain John Clements of Caroline County by Deed of Manumission
duly executed acknowledged and recorded among the land records of Caroline
County by D did manumit and set free a certain negro man named
William to be free from and after the first day of January Eighteen hundred
and twenty seven and the said negro man named William having made
application to me for a Certificate of his freedom agreeably to the act of assembly
in such case made and provided and whereas also upon the Oath of
John Clements of Caroline County that the said negro man named William
for whom this Certificate is made 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


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