Lauderdale County, AL
Deed Book 4, p. 482

Elizabeth Fuller Affidavit

The State of Alabama  }}
Lauderdale County     }}  Before me Alex H. Wood a Justice of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid personally appeared Martha Fuller who saith she is Fifty years old & upwards, that she [has] known a colored woman by the name of Elizabeth Franklin who is about Sixty Five years of age, that this deponent saith that she has known the said Elizabeth Franklin ever since she was a child that she knew her in Granville County State of North Carolina and that she always to her knowledge passed as a free woman & that she never knew it doubted and that she verily believes her to be free born.                                                                                                         her
Sworn to & subscribed before me this                        Martha   X   Fuller
10^th day of March 1830                                                          mark 

                                       Alex H. Wood J.P. {SEAL}

Recorded 11^th March 1830

Lauderdale County, AL
Deed Book 4, p. 499

Elizabeth Franklin Affadavit

State of Alabama    }}   Before me George Boggs, an acting Justice
Lauderdale  County}}  of the Peace this day personally appeared Charles Best who makes oath that he was acquainted with Elizabeth Franklin who then lived in Williamson County Tennessee in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred & Fifteen a woman of Colour he says was generally believed to be a free woman and from the best information obtained from persons who knew said Elizabeth for many years there is no doubt but she was free born and that she had a Son named Henry F. Franklin now about Twenty Seven or eight years old who I am now informed lives in Pope County in the State of Illinois.

          Given under my hand this 3^rd April 1830.

                                                          Chas  Best

Sworn to 7 subscribed before me this 3 April 1830

                                                          George Boggs {SEAL}
                                                                   Mayor of Florence
Recorded 3^rd April 1830                                    by E. M. Ward

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