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Freelove ^ Brush a free mulatto girl on examination upon Oath, says she is
near 20 years old and was born in Rhode island as she has been
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informed left there when she was 8[?] years old and lived in the town of
Amenia in dutchess county where she was brought by Burnet Mathison about a
mile from the federal store. her mother was a free mulatto woman as she has
been told. She remained in the family of said Matthison till she was 18 years
of age, at which time her contract expired, Mathison gave her two suits
clothes and a bed & bedding _ She came to Poughkeepsie in May(crossout)
^April 1807 and has lived with John Sevig junr ever since at one dollar a
week (anchor symbol)
Freelove, 20 y.o, born in Rhode Island to Amenia in Brought by Dermot
Mathison about a mile from the federal store. Her Mother was a free mulatto
woman as she has been told. She remained in the family of said Mathison
till she was 1_ years of age at which time her contract expired, Mathison
gave her two suits clothes and a bed & bedding. SHe came to Poughkeepsie
in April 1807 and has lived with John Sevig? …. ever since at one dollar
a week.
Ordered that Freedom Mark leave the town of Pughkeepsie by 1st Sept. next—-