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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 232   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas application
hath been made to me by a negro man named Stansbury
Carmon for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the
acts of assembly in such case made and provided
by which said acts free negroes and Mulattoes 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 Alexander P Jorden of Caroline
County aforesaid that the said negro man named
Stansbury Carmon for whom this certificate is made
was free born I do therefore grant his said application
and hereby certify that from his own account
he is now about twenty two years of age five feet
nine and three quarter inches high or thereabouts of a
Chesnutt Complexion was born in Sussex County Del
and partly raised in Caroline County Maryland
and has a small scar of a cut above the right eye
and             small scars on his upper lip and
has              notable marks or scars that I have observed
                      In Testimony whereof I hereunto
                      subscribe my name and affix the
                      seal of Caroline County Court
                      this 20th day of November Anno
                      Domini 1851
                            James H. Fountain Clk


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