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District of Columbia,
Washington County Ss
On this thirteenth day of January 1825 personally appears before me, one of the justices of the peace in & for the county aforesaid, Thomas Spurling & makes oath on the holy Evangely of Almighty God that he was formerly the owner of a negro woman Rebecca & children who have filed a petitioned for their freedom in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for Washington County against a certain Lloyd Pumphrey. That the said Petitioner were owned by this Deponent in Fairfax County State of Virginia, & were for land of Mr Henry Lee in the that County State Virginia. Where this Dept. remained for about two months & thence returned again to Fairfax, and had ever since continued to live there, & to until the place previous goal gaol on account of the Deb note. in mentioned in the conveyance of him the said Spurling to the said Lloyd Pumphrey & a certain John W. Baker for the said negroes. That at the time of this their property negroes were conveyed to the aforesaid Lloyd & John W. it was intended to be a sale, but this
Thos Corcoran
880
Negro Rebecca for herself & children
vs.
L. Pumphrey
afft
fd. 13th Jany. 1825