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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 82   View pdf image
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Mr Blunt to be from thirty eight to forty years of age
And whereas the said negro woman named Alce hath
this day come before me and made oath that she has lost
the said Certificate and does not know of any person who
has robbed her of it and that she did not deliver it to any
person who and also upon the evidence of Mr Henry Meeks
of the County afsd that the said negro woman Alce for
whom this Certificate is made is the person above described
I therefore grant her said application and hereby Certify
that she appears to answer the above description
according to the act of assembly in such case made
and provided
                In Testimony whereof I have hereto set
                my hand and affixed the public seal of my
                office this 16th day of April in the year of our
                Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen
                                                 Jo Richardson Clk
                                                             of
                                              Caroline County Court


Maryland Caroline County to wit

Whereas application hath been made to me by a negro
man named Thomas Mattee for a certificate agreeably
to an act of assembly passed at November Session eighteen
hundred and five by which said act free negroes are
permitted to travel out of this State by obtaining a certificate
of their being free born  And whereas also upon the
evidence of Seth Godwin Esquire of the County afsd that the
said negro man named Thomas Mattee is free born I do
therefore grant his said application and hereby certify that
the aforesaid negro man named Thomas Mattee to whom
this certificate is delivered is five feet nine Inches high or
(nearly) has a smart scar across his right fore left fore


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