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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 37   View pdf image
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Caroline County ss.t  Be it remembered that on the fifteenth
day of January Eighteen hundred and ten  I
delivered to Negro Joseph a Certificate a
copy of which is as follows to wit

       State of Maryland Caroline County to wit
Whereas a certain negro man named Joseph heretofore
to wit; on the twenty ninth day of May in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five
and manumitted by Nicholas Loveday of Talbot County
to be free from and after the first day of January Eighteen
hundred and ten and by the said manumission
remaining of Record in Caroline County Court reference
being thereto had will more fully and at large appear
And Whereas the said negro man named Joseph hath
made application to me for a certificate of his freedom
agreeably to the act of assembly and upon the Oath of
James Willson (of Daniel) of Talbot County that the
said negro man named Joseph is the Identical person
who was manumited as aforesaid; I do hereby
certify that the said negro man named Joseph is
of a black Complexion was raised in Talbot County
is five feet Eight and one fourth Inches High has
a SCar on the thumb of his left hand and also on
the left leg one near the Knee and the other on the
out side of the Calf of his leg occasioned those on
his leg from a Burn and no other notable marks
which I can discover.   In Testimony whereof
             I have hereto set my hand and affixed the
             public seal of my office this fifteenth day
(seal)     of January in the year of our Lord
             one thousand Eight hundred and ten

         Tho Richardson Clk Caroline County Court


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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
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