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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 228   View pdf image
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was forty two years of age in January last he is about five feet two inches
high of a complexion nearly black was born and raised in Queen Anns
County has a small scar on his forehead something like a pit of the small
pox over the inner corner of his right eye and another scar of a cut on his
right eye cheek near the corner of his mouth and nearly perpendicular
with his face and another scar of a cut crosswise on the top of his
left wrist and no other notable marks or scars that I have observed
           In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix
(seal)   the public seal of my office this 14th day of May anno Domini
            1827                                                   Jo Richardson Clk
                                                                       of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit   Whereas application hath been
made to me by a negro man named William Wright 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 upon the Oath of Nancy Kirkman of
Caroline county that the said negro man named William Wright for whom
this certificate is made was free born  I do therefore grant his said application
and hereby certify that he is about twenty years of age about five feet
eight and a half inches high of a dark brown complexion was born and
raised in Caroline county and has a scar across the lower joint of his big toe
on his right foot and no other particular mark or scar that I have observed
           In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix
(seal)   the public seal of my office this 25th day of May anno Domini
           1827                  Jo Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court
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