NANCY FRANKLIN'S FREE PAPERS

Lauderdale County, Alabama
Deed Book 11, p. 544 - 545

Nancy Franklin Free Papers

The State of Alabama Lauderdale County ‑‑‑ Before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for the county and State aforesaid; Personally came Fielden Fields and made oath that the bearer Nancy Franklin is a free person of color aged about Twenty or Twenty two years of age, that She lived in the County of Williamson State of Tennessee and was brot [sic] to this county by her Mother when She was but five year old, where she has lived ever Since (Nancy’s mother is now called Sarah Mitchel, her color is a shade darker than Copper coler [sic]) and her hair is long and black & straight, yet a little on the curley order, her Size a little over the middle Size; Said Nancy has three children two girls and one boy, the Eldest girls named Ellen, the other Sarah, the boy named La Fayette. Ellen is five years, very black, Sarah two years old a bright mulatto, The boys age is one year a bright mulatto – all of which was Sworn to & subscribed before me this 24th day of March a d 1846

           J Bigger J Peace                                                     Fielden Fields

State of Alabama, Lauderdale County. 
I Wiley T Hawkins Clerk of the County court aforesaid, do hereby Certify that Joseph Bigger whose name appears Subscribed to the above act Certificate is now and was at the time of signing the Same an acting Justice of the peace in and for Said county & state aforesaid, duly qualified & commissioned and that full faith and Credit should be given to all his official acts as Such justice of the peace. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed my Seal of office at Florence this 23rd day of March A D 1846

{{SEAL}}                                                             Test W T Hawkins Clerk

recorded the 25th day of March 1846

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