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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 51   View pdf image
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scar caused as he says by the bite of a dog on his left arm and no other notable marks or
scars that I have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of
            my office this 11th day of July Anno Domini 1831
Cost $1.00 Cts                                                               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 Jefferson Downes 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 William Price of Queen Anns County that the said negro man named
Jefferson Downes 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 was twenty one years
of age the seventh day of July Instant five feet eight inches high or thereabouts was born
and raised in Caroline County of a black complexion has no flesh marks that I
have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public
           seal of my office this 30th day of July Anno Domini 1831
Cost $1.00 Cts                                                      Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                               Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me by
a negro woman named Lydia Fountain for a Certificate of her 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 Elijah Cade of Caroline County that the said
negro woman named Lydia Fountain for whom this certificate is made was free born
I do therefore grant her said application and hereby certify that from her own account she
was twenty one years of age in March last five feet and half an inch high or thereabouts
was born and raised in Caroline County of a black complexion has a small scar of a cut on the
inside of longitudinally with her right wrist and no other notable marks or scars that I have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of
            my office this 4th day of August Anno Domini 1831
Cost $1.00 Cts                                                                  Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                                          Caroline County Court


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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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