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eight hundred and seven. Tho Richardson Clk of
Caroline County Court Caroline County to wit. Be it remembered that on the nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven I delivered to negro Glasgow in the following Certificate mentioned a Certificate of which the following is a true Copy to wit State of Maryland Caroline County to wit Whereas (a certain man by the name of Glasgow heretofore to wit on the second day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two was manumitted by Mr Charles Blair of Caroline County to be free on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and six as by the said manumission recorded in Liber T R No H Folio's 178, 179 & 180 one of the Land records of the County aforesaid reference being thereto had will appear; And whereas application is made to me by a negro man called Glasgow) (whom Doctor Robert Stevens makes Oath is the identical person who was manumitted as aforesaid) for a certificate of his freedom as aforesaid. I do thereby Certify that the said negro man called Glasgow is five feet seven inches and one half high and from the age expressed in the manumission aforesaid he is about forty one years of age is of a black Complexion was raised till nearly grown in Dorchester County afterwards in Caroline has a Scar on the lower part of the Calf of his right Leg and no other notable marks which I can discover. In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed (Seal) the Public seal of my Office this nineteenth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. Tho RIchardson Clk of Caroline County to wit Caroline County to wit. Be it remembered that on the twenty first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven I delivered to negro Thomas Smith in the following Certificate named a Certificate of which the following is a true Copy to wit State of Maryland Caroline County to wit whereas a certain negro man by the name of Thomas Sewell heretofore to wit on the |
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