SARAH MITCHELL'S FREE PAPERS

Lauderdale County, Alabama
Deed Book 11, p. 545

Sarah Mitchell Free Papers

The State of Alabama Lauderdale County ‑‑‑ Personally came before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the county & state aforesaid, Fielden Fields, and made oath in due form & Saith that he has Known the bearer Sarah Mitchell for the last thirty years as a free born woman of Color, that She had resided in the County for the last Seventeen years, and Still is a resident of the Same County & affiant believes She was free born – and her age at this time is between forty and forty-five years, Copper Colored with long back hair Straight, now turning gray – of the Middle Size, Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 23th day of March A D 1846

J. Bigger J Peace                                                          Fielden Fields

The State of Alabama Lauderdale County __ I Wiley T. Hawkins Clerk of the County court of the County & state aforesaid, do Certify that Joseph Bigger whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing Certificate, is and was at the time of Signing the Same, an acting Justice of the peace in and for the county and State aforesaid, duly qualified and commissioned and that full faith & Credit should be given to all his official acts as Such Justice of the peace: In Testimony of which, I have hereunto Subscribed My Name and affixed My Seal of Office at Florence the 20th day of March A D 1846

{{SEAL}}         W T Hawkins Clerk

Recorded the 21st March 1846

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