| Name | Age | Color or Race | Sex | Role in document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Brown | 20 | Mixed race ("mulatto") | Female | grantee |
Certificate of freedom was recorded on l O July 1821. [First document] Washington Co., District of Columbia: Overton Carr appeared before a Justice of the Peace and swore that "Ann Brown, a Mulatto woman age about 20 years, having a small scar on her cheek, is a free born woman. Her mother [Statia or stated] was manumitted by Miss Ann Parvin of Charles Co., Maryland and is there recorded." Sworn on l O July 1821 before Joseph Forrest, Justice of the Peace. [Second document] John Macleod certifies that Ann Brown is a free person of color, having lived occasionally in his family for the last nine years and was there married to her present husband about 18 months ago; that she "is a person of probity and correct habits, and that her statement of having a son named James about three months old, may be safely relied on by those it may concern." Signed on IO July 1821 by John MacLeod, General Post Office.
