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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 91   View pdf image
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and whereas also upon the evidence of Doctor Robert
Stevens of the County aforesaid that the said Priscilla Trusty
is free born.   I do therefore grant her said application
and hereby Certify that the said Priscilla Trusty is five
feet six & a half inches high or thereabout of a light
complexion was raised in Caroline County and says she
was eighteen years old on the twenty first day of January
last past has a scar on the side of her right hand
next the little finger occasioned (as she says) by a burn
is well made and of a healthy appearance 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 19th day of
           October Anno Domini 1816
                                                    Jo Richardson Clk
                                        of Caroline County Court


                Maryland Caroline County to wit

       Whereas application hath been made to me by a
negroe man named Levi Tilghman for a certificate
agreeably to an act of the General assembly of Maryland
passed at November Session Eighteen hundred and five
by which said act free negroes and molattoes are permitted
to travel out of this state upon their obtention of a certificate
of being free born.  And whereas also upon the
evidence of Col William Potter of the County afsd that the
said negroe man named Levi Tilghman for whom this
certificate is made was free born.  I do therefore grant his
said application and hereby certify that he is five
feet seven inches high or thereabout was raised in
Caroline County says he is twenty one years old
has a scar on the first Joint of the middle finger


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