Name | Age | Color or Race | Sex | Role in document |
---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Perks | 21 | Mixed race ("mulatto") | Male | grantee |
Certificate of freedom was recorded on 31 May 1819. Elizabeth Carroll states that Robert Pecks is a free man; that she was well acquainted with his mother, Sucky [Lucky] Smith and also with his grandmother Hannah Smith; both were free born women and resided many years in Montgomery Co., Maryland. The "said Mulatto man Robert is about 21 years old, 5' and 6 or 7" high, [ of] good countenance and well made." Signed on 19 May 1819 by Elizabeth Carroll. ln the left margin of the handwritten Liber the following is written: "ex [ examined] and delivered to Robert [Parks] June [ 1st] 181 9."