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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 92   View pdf image
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on the left hand which occasions it to be somewhat
stiff in the Joint and crooked  he is rather of a yellowish
complexion tolerable well made and of a healthy
appearance and no other notable marks that I have
discovered
                   In Testimony whereof I have hereto set
(seal)           my hand and affixed the public seal of my
                   office this 29.th day of October anno Domini 1816
                                                             Jo Richardson Clk of
                                                             Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit
             Whereas heretofore to wit on the twelfth day of
January eighteen hundred and five Samuel Talbot of Caroline
County by Deed of Manumission duly executed acknowledged
and recorded amongst the land records of Caroline
County did manumit and set free a negro man
named Dick to be free after his having attained to the
age of twenty five years as by reference to the said manumission
remaining of record in Caroline County Court
will fully appear and whereas the said negro man named
Dick hath made application to me for a certificate of
his freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case
made and provided and upon the oath of Samuel Talbot
of the County aforesaid that the said negro man named
Dick for whom this certificate is made is the identical
person mentioned aforesaid I do therefore grant his said application
and hereby certify that from the age expressed
in said manumission and the testimony of the said Samuel
Talbot he is about twenty five years old the
twelfth day of January next he is five feet ten inches
and three quarters of an inch high or thereabouts a dark
molatto was raised in Caroline County and has no
notable scars or marks that I have discovered
                In Testimony whereof I have hereunto


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