{"deed_identifier":"DC.WAS.AM37.22.1","deed_county":"Washington DC.","deed_date":"August 6, 1816","deed_type":"Cert. of Freedom","book":"Book AM37, Page 22.","people":[{"occupation_enslaved":"","name":"Francis Datcher","role":"grantee","color_race":"","sex":"Male","age":"23","person_skills":"","date_added":"","group_sale":"","consideration":"","person_url":"https://dlas.uncg.edu/deeds/person/69516","birthdate":"","deathdate":"","family_roles":[],"diseases":""}],"summaries":[],"abstracts":["Certificate of freedom was recorded on 6 August\n1816. \"This is to certify that on 5 August 1816 Mary Butler, a free woman of color [ and] of\ngood character personally appeared before a Justice of the Peace\" for Washington Co., District\nof Columbia and swore that she lived \"at the next house to the mother of Francis Datcher at the\nbirth of the said Francis, that his mother Rebecca Cole was at the time of his birth a free woman\nand that Francis who is personally present is the same colored person\" now age about 23 and is a\nfree man. Signed on 5 August 1816 by John Off[Justice of the Peace]."],"compiler_notes":[]}