Sarah Frazier, "free by birth," came to the territory of Florida in the year 1824, as the indentured servant of George Ward, an indenture "by which she had bound herself." At the expiration of her period of service, she was acknowledged as a free person by George Ward and his son George T. Ward, who upon the death of his father, "executed to your Orators a deed of emancipation reciting therein the discharge of your Orator from the articles of indenture, and declaring your Orator and your Orators children to be free persons by birth and under the laws of this State." The petitioners reveal that "the said deed has been lost and your Orators have now no written evidence other than the memory of the said George T Ward and other persons now living whose lives are rapidly drawing to a close." They therefore that George T. Ward be decreed to "execute to your Orators as the Excr of his father a deed declaring your orators to be free."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Florida State Archives, Tallahassee, Florida
