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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 7   View pdf image
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County but raised from a small child in Caroline has five small scars
in the left Arm between her elbow and wrist and one small one on her
right Arm Just below her elbow and no other notable marks which I
can discover   In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and
affixed the Public seal of my Office this twenty second day of May in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven  Tho Richardson
Clk of Caroline County Court

Caroline County to wit.   Be it remembered that on this twenty second day
of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven
I delivered to negro Samuel Hutchings in the following Certificate
mentioned a Certificate of which the following is true Copy to wit
State of Maryland Caroline County to wit.  Whereas a certain negro
man by the name of Samuel Hutchings heretofore to wit on the
eleventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and three and manumitted by M.r Nehemiah Saulsbury
Junior of Caroline County to be free immediately thereafter as by
the said manumission remaining of record in the County aforesaid
will appear and whereas application is made to me by a negro man
who calls himself Samuel Hutchings (and whom M.r Nehemiah
Saulsbury Junior makes Oath is the identical person who was manumitted
as aforesaid) for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to act of
Assembly I do hereby Certify that the said negro man called Samuel
Hutchings is five feet three inches and one half high and from the
best information which I can receive he is about forty years of age is
of a dark Complexion was born in Queen Anns County but raised from
a small boy in Caroline has a scar about the middle of his left foot
on the inside which he says he cut with an ax and two scars on his
left wrist near his hand which he says are burns; and no other notable
marks which I can discover.  In Testimony whereof I have hereto
set my hand and affixed the Public seal of my office this twenty


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