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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 50   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit;  Whereas heretofore to wit; on
the thirtieth day of May eighteen hundred and fifteen a certain James Boon
of Caroline County by Deed of manumission duly executed acknowledged
and recorded among the land records of Caroline County did manumit and set
free a certain Negro boy named Galloway to be free and at his liberty
on the tenth day of November eighteen hundred and twenty nine and the
said negro Boy name Galloway having made application to me for a certificate
of his freedom agreeably to the Act of Assembly in such case made and
provided and whereas also upon the oath of Joshua Cranor of Caroline
County that the said Negro boy named Galloway for whom this certificate is
made is the same person mentioned in the said manumission.  I do
therefore grant his said application and hereby certify that from his age as
expressed in the said manumission he was twenty three years of age this thirtieth
day of May last five feet four and a quarter inches high or thereabouts
of a black complexion was boined and raised in Caroline County and has a
scear of a cut in the middle of the upper part of his forehead just in the
edge of the wool and a large scar of a burn on the under part of his right arm
nearly the whole extent between the elbow and rist joints and another large
scar of a cut on the upper part of his right foot and no other notable marks
or scears that I have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public
seal of my office this 14th day of July Anno Domini 1831
          Cost $1.00                                          Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                      Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas application hath been made to me by a
negro man named William Flamer for a certificate of his freedom agreeably to the act of
assembly in such case made and provided by which said act free negroes and mulattoes
are permitted to travel out of this State upon the obtention of a certificate of being free born
And whereas also upon the oath of Isaac Vinson of Caroline County that the said negro
man named William Flamer for whom this certificate is made was free born.  I do therefore
grant his said application and hereby certify that from his own account he is about thirty
three or thirty four years of age five feet seven and three quarter inches high or thereabouts
of a dark mulatto complexion born and raised in Caroline County and has a small
scar of a cut nearly perpendicular in the middle of his forehead and another small


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