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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 74   View pdf image
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Seven and a half Inches high or thereabout tolerably
stout made and no other marks that I have discovered
           In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and
(Seal)   affixed the public seal of my office this fifteenth day
                of august 1815
                                                             Tho Richardson Clk
                                                          Caroline County Court



State of Maryland
Caroline County to wit  Whereas on the 28.th day February
1800 Thomas Hopkins of Caroline County by Deed of manumission
duly executed acknowledged and recorded amongst the Records
of Caroline County did manumit and set free a negro woman
named Sarah to be free from and after the date of the said
manumission  and whereas the said negro woman named Sarah
hath made application to me for a certificate of her freedom
agreeably to the act of assembly in such case made and provided
and being satisfied by the oath of James Hopkins Fleharty
of the County aforesaid that the said negro woman named
Sarah to whom this certificate is delivered is the Identical
person mentioned in the manumission afsd I do therefore
grant her said application and hereby certify that from
the age expressed in the said manumission the said
negro woman named Sarah is forty three years of
age was raised in Caroline County she is five feet
three and a half inches high yellowish complexion
has a natural mark from her birth on the under part
of her right arm adjoining her elbow about an inch
long and no other particular marks that I have
discovered
                  In Testimony whereof I have hereto
(Seal)         set my hand and affixed the public seal of
                my office this sixteenth day of august Eighteen
            hundred and fifteen              Tho Richardson Clk
                                                                   of
                                                    Caroline County Court


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