{"deed_identifier":"DC.WAS.AT44.277.1","deed_county":"Washington DC.","deed_date":"May 31, 1819","deed_type":"Cert. of Freedom","book":"Book AT44, Page 277.","people":[{"occupation_enslaved":"","name":"Robert Perks","role":"grantee","color_race":"Mixed race (\"mulatto\")","sex":"Male","age":"21","person_skills":"","date_added":"","group_sale":"","consideration":"","person_url":"https://dlas.uncg.edu/deeds/person/70260","birthdate":"","deathdate":"","family_roles":[],"diseases":""}],"summaries":[],"abstracts":["Certificate of freedom was recorded on 31 May 1819. Elizabeth Carroll states that\nRobert Pecks is a free man; that she was well acquainted with his mother, Sucky [Lucky] Smith\nand also with his grandmother Hannah Smith; both were free born women and resided many\nyears in Montgomery Co., Maryland. The \"said Mulatto man Robert is about 21 years old, 5\u0027 and\n6 or 7\" high, [ of] good countenance and well made.\" Signed on 19 May 1819 by Elizabeth\nCarroll. ln the left margin of the handwritten Liber the following is written: \"ex [ examined] and delivered\nto Robert [Parks] June [ 1st] 181 9.\""],"compiler_notes":[]}