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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 94   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit

    Whereas on the second day of June Eighteen hundred
and two Charles Blair of Caroline County by deed of'
manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded
amongst the records of Caroline County did manumit and set
free a negro Girl named Bershaba but commonly called Bass
to be free from and after the first day of January Eighteen
hundred and seventeen      And whereas the said negro
woman named Bersheba (alias Bass) hath made application
to me for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the act of
assembly in such case made and provided and being satisfied
by the oath of Robert Stevens Esquire of Caroline County
afsd that the said negro woman Bershaba alias Bass for
whom this certificate is made is the Identical person mentioned
in the said manumission I do therefore grant her said
application and hereby certify that from the age expressed
in said manumission she is about twenty years of age she
is about five feet two inches high has a long scar on the
upper part of her right arm between the elbow & wrist  dark
eyes  of a delicate appearance and no other notable marks
that I have discovered  of a darkish complexion and was
raised in Caroline County (she says)
             In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand
(seal)     and affixed the public seal of my office this sixteenth
             day of April Eighteen hundred and seventeen
                                        Jo Richardson Clk Caroline County
                                                                               Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit

    Whereas on the second day of June Eighteen hundred
and Two Charles Blair of Caroline County by deed of
Manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded
amongst the records of Caroline County did manumit


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