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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 48   View pdf image
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of Caroline County manumitted liberated and set
free a certain negro man called Thomas otherwise
called Thomas Moody to be free and at liberty from
the date of the said manumission.  And whereas
the said Thomas otherwise called Thomas Moody
hath made application to me for a Certificate
of his freedom agreeably to act of Assembly
I do therefore upon the Oath of Mr James Horney
that the said negro man called Thomas otherwise
Thomas Moody is the identical person named
in the manumission by him given as above
recited I Certify that from the appearance of the
said negro man he is about twenty five or thirty
years of age he is five feet five Inches high
tolerable dark Complexion a small very smart
lively pert looking fellow  has a scar on the
top of his right foot near the inner side occasioned
by the cut of an ax and a scar on his right
leg and no other notable marks which I can
discover   and the said negro man was raised in
Caroline County near Denton.  In Testimony
                   whereas I have hereto set my hand and
    (Seal)      affixed the public seal of my office this
                   eleventh day of May one thousand eight
                   hundred and eleven
                                                 Tho Richardson Clk
                                                 Caroline County Court


Caroline County to wit  Be it remembered that on the
28 May 1811 I delivered to the negro man therein
named the following Certificate Viz

State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas
heretofore to wit on the twenty fifth day of October in the
year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety one Mary
M Nicols & Henry Nicols 3rd of Caroline County by Deed
of manumission duly executed acknowledged and Recorded
amongst the Records of Caroline County manumitted and


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