Seaman's Protection Certificate

PROTECTION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

STATE OF MARYLAND

By this Public Instrument, be it known to all whom it may concern, that I, AMOS HOLMES, a Public Notary in and for the State of Maryland, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the said State, duly commissioned and sworn; and in and by the said Letters Patent invested “With full power and authority to ATTEST Deeds, Wills, Testaments, Codicils, Agreements and other Instruments in Writing, and to administer any Oath or Oaths, to any Person or Persons;” Do hereby certify that
Paul Parry Mariner who hath subscribed these Presents, personally appeared before me, and being by my duty sworn according to Law, Deposed That he is a Citizen of the United States of America and born in the state of Virginia –
five feet five and a half Inches high, and aged nineteen Years

And I do further certify, That the said Paul Parry being a Citizen of the United States of America, and liable to be called in the Service of his Country, is to be respected accordingly at all Times by Sea and Land.
WHEREOF an Attestation being required, I have granted this under my Notarial Firm and Seal.

DONE at the City of Baltimore in the said State of Maryland, the eleventh Day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and one.
QUOD ATTESTOR

Amos Holmes
Elijah Kane