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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 50   View pdf image
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to the act of assembly; and upon the Oath of Anthony
Ross that the said negro man named Jacob is the
Identical person who was manumited as aforesaid:  I do
hereby certify that the said negro man named Jacob
is of a very black complection was raised in Caroline
County is five feet five inches high has large plump
Eyes big mouth and thick lips with a flat nose and
is a well set fellow  has no notable marks which
I can discover
                               In Testimony whereof I have
           hereto set my hand and affixed the public seal
(seal)   of my office this fifth day of June in the year
           of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eleven
                                                    Tho Richardson Clk
                                                    of Caroline County


Caroline County to wit      Be it remembered that on the
twenty second October 1811  I delivered to negro Elizabeth
a Certificate as follows  viz

State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas
Negro Elizabeth otherwise called Elizabeth Thomas
desirous of travelling out of the County and state of her
nativity hath made application to me for a Certificate
of her freedom agreeably to act of assembly in such case
made and provided.   I do therefore upon the evidence
of Mr Thomas Hardcastle satisfactory to my mind that the
said negro woman called Elizabeth otherwise Elizabeth
Thomas was born free hereby Certify that the said
negro woman from the said deed aforesaid was born
free that she was raised partly in Caroline & partly in
Talbott Counties is now about twenty seven years of
age   five feet two inches high   light complexion
has lost her upper fore Teeth and nearly all her Jaw
Teeth has a very remarkable scar occasioned (as she
says) by a burn on the outter part of the left hand about
the Joints of the two last fingers and no other notable
marks which I can discover
                                              In Testimony whereof


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