ELIZABETH FRANKLIN

Lauderdale County, AL
Deed Book 7, p. 628

Rachel Elizabeth Franklin Free Papers

The State of Alabama} Before me Thomas J. Crow a Justice of the peace
Lauderdale County    }  in & for the County aforesaid personally appeared Samuel Farmer who being duly Sworn deposeth and saith that he has been acquainted with a mulatto Girl by the Name of Elizabeth Franklin about four years that she is about Eighteen Years that he has known her mother for about Two years and that She has ever Since his first knowledge of her passes as a free person of Colour and that he never herd the freedom of either of them questioned in any manner what ever and that he verily believes the Said Elizabeth Franklin to be free born

Subscribed & Sworn to  }                                   Samuel Farmer
Before me this 28^th day  }
of August 1838               }

              Thos J Crow   JP {SEAL}

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