Ben v. Sabret Scott. Certificate of Sabret Scott Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Elizabeth Askren Kaci L. Nash Laura K. Weakly University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Maryland National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 O Say Can You See University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 Certificate of Sabret Scott June 12, 1807 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 34, Folder 190 Case Papers Exhibit Civil Petition for Freedom June 1811 Jameson, Richard Maryland Virginia Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Ben Scott, Sabret United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed; edited Encoded and transcribed.

District of Columbia

County of Washington to wit on this 12th day of June in the year Eighteen hundred and seven Sabrit Scott the owner of a Mullatto man called Ben fully proved to the satisfaction of me the subscriber the Collector of the Tax for the County of Washington and District of Columbia aforesaid. that the said Negro Ben was a resident of the state of Virginia one of the United States three years whole years next preceding the time when the said Negro B Mullatto Ben was brought into the State of Maryland

Richd. Jameson