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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 79   View pdf image
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                                79

State of Maryland Caroline County to wit

Whereas application hath been made to me by a negro
man named Moses Hooper who alledges himself to be
free born for a pass or Certificate agreeably to an
act of assembly passed at November session Eighteen
hundred and five by which said act free negroes and
molatoes are permitted to travel out of this State
upon their obtaining a Certificate of being free born
and whereas also upon the evidence of M.rs Rachel
Rhodes of Caroline County afsd that the said negro man
named Moses Hooper for whom this Certificate is made
is free born I do therefore grant his said application
and I hereby Certify that he is five feet four inches high
or thereabout rather Black stout and well made and
no other notable marks that I have discovered
          In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand
(seal)  and affixed the public seal of my office this twenty
          second day of February Eighteen hundred and fifteen
                                                       Jo Richardson Clk
                                                                      of
                                                          Caroline County


Maryland Caroline County
to wit  Whereas heretofore to wit on the seventh day
of March in the year of our Lord one seventeen
hundred and ninety one Richard Loockerman of
Caroline County by deed of manumission duly
executed acknowledged and recorded among the
records of Caroline County did manumit and
set free a negro man named Paca to be free from
and after January Eighteen hundred and eight nine
as by the said manumission remaining of record in
my office manifestly appears and whereas the said
negro man named Paca hath made application
to me for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to
an act of assembly in such case made and provided


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