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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 53   View pdf image
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to travel out of this state upon the obtention of a certificate of being free born and
whereas also upon the oath of William A Ford of Caroline County that the said negro man
named Henry Wisher for whom this certificate is made was free born I do therefore grant his said
application and hereby certify that from his own account is about twenty years of age five
feet two a and a half inches high or thereabouts of a mulattoe complexion ^was^ born and raised in
Caroline County and has no flesh markes that I have observed
(seal)   In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the public seal of my
            office this 2nd day of December Anno Domini 1831
Cost $1.00                                                                        Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                                         Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit on the thirtieth day of
October in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety two a certain Henry Downes of
Caroline County by Deed of Manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded
among the Land records of Caroline County aforesaid did manumit and set free a negro woman
called Emme to be free on the twenty fourth day of December eighteen hundred and twenty
And whereas the said negro woman named Emme hath this day made application
to me for a certificate of her freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case
and provided and being satisfied by the oath of Mahala Cooper that the said negro
woman Emme was the same person mentioned in the said manumission I do therefore
grant her said application and hereby certify that from her own account she is
forty one years of age or thereabouts five feet two and a quarter inches high or thereabouts
of a complexion nearly black was born and raised in Caroline County and has a
small scar of a cut on the thick part of the inside of her right arm just below the
elbow joint 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 28th day of December 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 Noah Black 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 Reuben R Richardson
of Caroline County that the said negro man named Noah Black for whom the


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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
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