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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 66   View pdf image
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certify that from his own account he is about twenty five years of age five feet
eight and a quarter inches high or thereabouts of a black complexion was born and
raised in Caroline County and has a scar on the left side of his breast just under the
nipple and another about the middle of his breast a little above the nipple occasioned
as he says by a geathering ^and^ has two scars on his left arm one on the under and the
other on the upper part of his arm occasioned as he says by the bite of a dog 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 30th day of May Anno Domini 1832
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 James Hayes for a certicate 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 travil out of this state upon the obtention
of a certificate of being free born and whereas also upon the oath of Bennett Wherrett
of Caroline County that the said negro man named James Hayes 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 nine years of age five feet nine
and three quarter inches high or thereabouts of a black complexion was born and raised
in Caroline County and the end of his right middle finger ^has^ being mashed 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 31st day of May Anno Domini 1832
Cost $1.00                                                                     Jo Richardson  Clk of
                                                                                       Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit; Whereas heretofore to wit; on the second
day of June in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and two a certain Charles Blair
by Deed of Manumission duly executed acknowledged and recorded among the land
Records of Caroline County did manumit and set free a certain negro woman named
Nancy to ^be^ free from and after the first day of January Eighteen hundred and Eleven
and the said negro woman namd Nancy having made application to me for a certificate
of her freedom agreeably to the act of assembly in such case made and provided
and whereas also upon the oath of David Reese of Caroline County that the said negro


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