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Anne Arundel County Court Certificates of Freedom, 1810-1831
Volume 823, Page 187   View pdf image
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    Maryland Anne Arundel County to wit: 
                        I hereby Certify to all whom it doth or
may concern, that it hath been proved to my
satisfaction that the bearer hereof a negro man
named Matthew aged about twenty Eight years
about five feet Eight Inches high, dark Complexion
a small scar on the forehead and the second finger
of the left hand a little crooked is one of the
persons manumitted by Charles Drury by deed
dated the third day of February Anno Domini
seventeen hundred and ninety seven, that his
freedom Commenced on the first day of January
Eighteen hundred and sixteen, and that he was
raised in the County aforesaid
    Issued the 8th day of march 1823


Maryland Anne Arundel County to wit
      I hereby Certify to all whom it doth or may Concern
that it hath been proved to my satisfaction that the
bearer hereof a negro man named John (calling himself
John Johnson) aged about forty years about five feet
Eight and a quarter Inches high black Complexion has
a scar on the manumitted by Hester Hood and
Elizabeth Hood by Deed dated the second day of
December in the year of our Lord one thousand
Eight hundred and twenty two and that he was
raised in the County aforesaid
    Issued the 17th day of March 1823


Maryland Anne Arundel County to wit
I hereby certify to all whom it doth or may concern
that it hath been proved to my satisfaction that the
bearer hereof a negro woman named Sarah
(calling herself Sarah Johnson) aged about thirty
five years about five feet three Inches high black
complexion has a scar upon the back of the right
hand and another upon the end of the right thumb
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Anne Arundel County Court Certificates of Freedom, 1810-1831
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