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Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827
Volume 836, Page 97   View pdf image
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in the said manumission I do therefore grant his said manumission
application and hereby certify that from the age expressed in
said manumission he is thirty years of age and upwards he is five
feet six inches and one fourth of an inch high or thereabout has a
small scar on the brow of the right eye and a small scar near his
left eye & has a scar on the his right instep he is of a dark complexion
was raised in Caroline County and no other notable marks that
I have discovered      In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my
            hand and affixed the public seal of my office this twenty ninth
(seal)   day of May anno Domini Eighteen hundred and seventeen
                                                                   Jo Richardson Clk
                                                                   Caroline County Court


Maryland Caroline County to wit

Whereas application hath been made to me by a negro man named
Peter Hawkins 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 affirmation of Thomas Hopkins
Jun.r of the County aforesaid that the said negro man named Peter Hawkins
for whom this certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant
his said application and hereby certify that he is five feet five and
an half inches high or thereabouts was raised in Caroline County
supposed by M.r Hopkins to be about thirty one years of age
his left ancle is somewhat crooked  is of a black complexion
shows his teeth middling plain and has no other notable marks
that I have discovered          In Testimony whereof I have hereto
             set my hand and affixed the public seal of my office
(seal)     this fifth day of June Eighteen hundred and seventeen
                                                       Jo Richardson Clk
                                                 Caroline County Court


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