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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 38   View pdf image
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                                            38

Caroline County to wit.  Be it remembered that on the
twentieth day of February Eighteen hundred and ten
I delivered to mulatto William Johnson a certificate
a Copy of which is as follows Vizt

          State of Maryland Caroline County to wit
       Whereas application hath been made to me by a
mulatto man named William Johnson for a Certificate
agreeable to an act of Assembly of the said state passed
at November session Eighteen hundred and five by
which said act free negroes and mulatto's are
permitted to travel out of the said state upon their
obtention of their being freeborn.  And whereas also
upon the Oath of William Summers Esquire Gentleman
of the County aforesaid that the mulatto man
named William Johnson was freeborn;  I do
therefore hereby Certify that the said mulatto man
named William Johnson is five feet two Inches
high of a yellow Complexion was born and
raised in the County of Caroline has a large
scar on the back part of his left arm above
his elbow occasioned by a scald and no
other 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 twentieth day of
                February in the year of our Lord
                One thousand eight hundred and ten

                   Tho Richardson Clk of Caroline County
                                                                Court


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