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Robert Thomas
agt
Henry Pile.
Petition for freedom in the General Court.
Petitioner's Interrogatories.
1. Do you know the parties in this Suit, and how long have you known them?
2. Do you know Judah, the mother of the petitioner & how long have you known her?
3. Do you know Sophia the grand mother of the petitioner & how long have you known her?
4. Did you now Elizabeth commonly called Betty Mingo, the great grandmother of the petitioner, and when; and do you know that the said Betty was the daughter of a white woman?
5. Do you know that for have you been informed and by whom that the petitioner or any of his ancestors are descended from a white woman? relate your knowledge fully and truly.
6. Have you any further knowledge of the subject, if you have, relate it fully and truly.
G. Duvall.
for petr.
Eleanor Boarman
Elizabeth Curry
Henry Spalding, St. Mary's
1½ sid
Interrogatories.
Entered
Filed 31st October 1794