Jack Grant's Free Papers

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Wilkes County, GA

Jack Grant's Free Papers which allowed him to remain in Taliaferro County, Georgia as a free man after his slave master freed him in 1796. See Georgia Free Persons of Color, Michael A. Ports, Vol III, 1799-1865 p. 117

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Georgia Free Persons of Color, Michael A. Ports, Vol III, 1799-1865 p. 117

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