JACOB LACY FREE PAPERS

Lauderdale County, Alabama
Deed Book 10, p. 428

Jacob Lacy Free Papers

The State of Alabama }}
Lauderdale County     }} Personally appeared before the Subscribed a Justice of the Peace in & for the county & State aforesaid George G. Armstead & James W. Stewart & made oath and Saith that is known Jacob Lacy was raised in the Same neighborhood (In Louden County, Virginia) with affiants that there it was aways understood Jacob was Free, Said affiants have Known him for many years and have no hesitation in saying he the said Jacob is a Free man and further, more that he has lived in Florence, Alabama afs’d County for nine years last past and no one has ever questioned his not being Free. Sworn & Subscribed before me this 20th May, 1842
                  J. Bigger, J. Peace                                                   G. G. Armstead
                                                                                                   J. W. Stewart

Lauderdale County, Alabama}}
The state of Alabama            }} I Wiley T Hawkins Clerk of the County Court for the County & State aforesaid, do Certify that Joseph Bigger whose names appears officially above is and was at the time of subscribing to the Same an acting Justice of the peace in and for the county & State aforesaid duly Elected qualified & Commissioned and that his official acts as Such Justice are entitled to full faith and confidence In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Lauderdale County Alabama at office in Florence the 2oth day of May 1842
                                                                                     Wiley T. Hawkins Clerk
Recorded the 21st day of May 1842
 

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