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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 26   View pdf image
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                                    26

    State of Maryland Caroline County to wit

Whereas a Certain negro man named Washington heretofore to
wit on the second day of June in the year Eighteen hundred and two
was manumated by Charles Blair Gentleman of Caroline County
to be free from and after the first day of January Eighteen hundred
and six; as by the said manumission remaining of Record in
Caroline County Court reference being thereto had will appear
And whereas the said negro man named Washington hath
made application to me for a Certificate of his freedom agreeable
to the act of Assembly and by the Oath of Doctor Robert Stevens
that the said Negro Man named Washington is the Identical
person who was manumated as aforesaid I do hereby Certify
that from the age expressed in the said manumission that the
said negro man named Washington is about thirty two years
of Age five feet ten and a half Inches high dark Complexion
was raised in Caroline County near Hunting Creek has a scar
on the left Jaw occasioned by a bile and a small scar under
his left eye and no other notable mark which I can discover
And I further Certify that the said negro man Washington at
the same time made Oath that in October Eighteen hundred
and seven on his passage from Baltimore in a heavy Gale of
wind he lost a Certificate of his freedom obtained by me
from me on the twenty ninth day of July Eighteen hundred
and six out of his pockett Book with other paper and money
                   In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand
(Caroline)    and affixed the public seal of my office this
( County )    thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord
                   one thousand Eight hundred and nine
                        Tho Richardson Clk of Caroline County Court


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