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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 86   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit
       Whereas Richard Loockerman of Caroline County
by deed of manumission dated the seventh day of March
in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety
one duly executed acknowledged and recorded amongst the
Records of Caroline County did manumit and set free a negro
boy named Jacob to be free January 1813 and whereas the
said negro man named Jacob hath made application to me for a
certificate of his freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in
such case made and provided and being satisfied by the
oath of Thomas Baxter of the County afs.d that the said negro
Jacob for whom this certificate is made is the identical person
mentioned in the said manumission I do therefore grant
his said manumission and hereby certify that from the age
expressed in said manumission he is twenty ^about^ twenty eight
years old was raised in Caroline County he is five feet one
inch and an half inch high or thereabouts not so black as many
are tolerable large age and middling white has lost one
of his upper fore teeth 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 twentieth day
            of July Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and sixteen
                                                       Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                       Caroline County Court


                   Maryland Caroline County to wit

Whereas application hath been made to me for
by a negroe man named Peter Moor for a 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


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