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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) VIRGINIA. "Lettie Hollis, now Lettie Williams, a colored woman about 25 years of age . . ." Manuscript deed of freedom by Mary Scott, attesting to Lettie Hollis-Williams' status as a free born woman. Fairfax County, VA, 1831
an unusual deed of freedom, incorporating the testimony of Mary Scott, a white woman, sworn before Edmund Brooke, justice of the peace, and then taken to William Brent, County Clerk, proving that Lettie Hollis, now Lettie Williams, was the daughter of Peggy Hollis, a free black woman. Signed by the proper authorities and bearing the circular blind-stamps of the Clerk of Washington County.
