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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 93   View pdf image
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                                            93

set my hand and affixed the public seal of my office
this thirty first day of December in the year of our Lord
eighteen 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 Hawkins
Downs for a certificate agreeably to the 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
Nimrod Barwick Esquire of the County aforesaid that
the said negro man named Hawkins Downes for whom
this certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant
his said application and hereby certify that he is five
feet three and a half inches high or thereabouts was raised
in Caroline County says he is twenty one years of age
the twelfth day of this Instant month has a large scar
on the hinder part of his left leg occasioned by the cut of an
ax  is of a black complexion and has no other notable
mark about him that I have discovered
                   In testimony whereof I have hereto set my
                   hand and affixed the public seal of my
                   office this seventh day of January Anno
                   Domini eighteen hundred and seventeen
                                     Jo Richardson Clk of
                                     Caroline County Court


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