DREWRY GOING

Lauderdale County, AL
Deed Book 4, p. 485

Drewry Going – Free Papers

The State of Alabama}} Before me Allex H. Wood
Lauderdale County   }}} a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid personally appeared Saml. H. Byrn [?] who being duly sworn deposeth & saith, that he has been acquainted with a mulatto man by the name of Drewry Going about Twelve years that the said Drewry Going is about Twenty three or four years of age deponent says he was also well acquainted with his father & all the family and that they always passed as free people of colour, and that he never heard it questioned in any manner and that he verily believes the said Drewry Going to have been free born.

                                                                 Samuel H. Byrn [?]

Sworn and Subscribed to before
Me this 24^th day of March 1830

                                                                   Alex H. Wood J. P. {SEAL}

Recorded 24 March 1830.

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