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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 52   View pdf image
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Byrn that the said negro man Charles to whom this
Certificate is delivered is the identical person mentioned
by that name in a manumission of Mary
Nicols and Henry Nicols 3rd and duly acknowledged
and recorded amongst the Land Records of
Caroline County by which said manumission it is
declared that the said negro therein mentioned named
Charles should be free on the first day of January
in the year eighteen hundred and nine and I
further Certify that from the appearance of the said
negro called Charles and from his own decleration
that he is about twenty four years of age he is
five feet five inches high a likely smart looking
well sett fellow of tolerable black complexion
and some what bow leg'd and has had a
small peice cut slantwise off of the fore finger
of his left hand and no other notable marks
which I can discover he says he was raised
partly in Caroline & partly in Queen Ann's
Counties   In Testimony whereof I have hereto
          set my hand and affixed the public seal
(seal)  of my office this sixth day of January
          in the year of our Lord one thousand
          eight hundred and eleven
                                        Tho: Richardson Clerk
                                     of Caroline County Court


Caroline County to wit   Be it remembered that on this
5th Feby 1812 I delivered to negro Terry therein named
a certificate as follows   Viz
          The State of Maryland Caroline County to wit
Whereas heretofore to wit on the seventeenth day of
January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twelve Rachel Rhodes of Caroline County
by Deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged
and recorded amongst the Records of Caroline County
manumitted and set free a certain negro Girl called
Terry to be free and at liberty from the date of said
manumission.  And whereas the said negro Girl


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