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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 23   View pdf image
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County and State aforesaid and no other notable
marks which I can discover
                 In Testimony whereof I have hereto
(County)   set my hand and affixed the public
(  Seal  )   seal of my office this thirteenth day of
                January Eighteen hundred and Eight
                                         Tho Richardson Clk
                                        Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit   Whereas a
certain Black man by the name of James Satterfield
heretofore to wit on the sixteenth day of June in the year
of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety was manumitted
by a Certain William Meeds Satterfield to be free
from the date thereof as by said manumission reference
being had thereto will appear;   and whereas the said Black
man called James Satterfield hath made application to
me for a Certificate of his freedom agreeable to an act
of assembly;   upon the Oath of Elijah Satterfield that
the said Black man called James Satterfield is the Identical
person who was manumitted as aforesaid I do
hereby Certify that the said Black man called James
Satterfield is five feet three Inches high has a small
Scar on his left hand by the bite of a hog and from
the age expressed in the aforesaid manumission he
is about fifty five years of age was raised in Queen
Anns County in Tulleys Neck and was removed to
this County when about the age of twenty four years
and no other notable marks which I can discover
                In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand
(County)  and affixed the public seal of my office this
(   seal  )  this tenth day of May in the year of our Lord
               one Thousand Eight hundred and Eight
                   Tho Richardson Clk  Caroline County Court


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