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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 88   View pdf image
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scar under each eye of a yellowish complexion and no
other notable marks which I have discovered
          In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand
(seal)  and affixed the public seal of my office this fifteenth
          day of August in the year of our Lord Anno
          Domini Eighteen hundred and Sixteen
                                              Jo Richardson Clerk
                                                            of
                                              Caroline County Court


Maryland Caroline County to wit

Whereas heretofore to wit on the twenty fourth day of
December Eighteen hundred and seven William
Burton of Caroline County by Deed of manumission duly
executed acknowledged and recorded amongst the records
of Caroline County did manumit and set free a negroe
woman named Esther to be free and at perfect liberty
on the first day of January Eighteen hundred and thirteen
as by the said manumission remaining of Record in
Caroline County reference being thereto had may more
fully appear and whereas the said negro woman named
Esther hath made application to me for a certificate
of her freedom agreeably to an act of assembly in such
case made and provided and being satisfied by the
Oath of Margaret Brown of Caroline County that the
said negro woman Ether for whom this certificate is
made 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
said manumission she is nearly forty three years old
was raised in Caroline County she is five feet two
Inches high or thereabout has lost one of upper fore


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