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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 52   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas application hath been made to me
by a negro man named James Rich 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 Joshua Clarke of Caroline County that the
said negro man named James Rich 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 eleventh day of June last five feet seven inches high or
thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County of a black complexion has a
scar of a cut crosswise his left fore finger a little below the hand joint and a scar of a
burn on the lower joint and inner side of the calf of his right fore leg and another
scar on the outer side of the small of his left leg just above the ancle and no other
notable marks or scars that I have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the pubic seal
           of my office this 17th day of September 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 Jeremiah White 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 Levin Charles of Caroline County that the said negro man named Jeremiah
White 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 nineteen years of age in January last
five feet six and a quarter inches high or thereabouts was born and raised in Caroline County of
a brown complexion has a small scar on the left side of his nose 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 27th day of September 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 Henry Wisher 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


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