Sumter District SC Deed Book F Salt Lake City Film No. 0355680

p. 69
State South Carolina
Sumter District
To All people to whom these presents shall come I Joel L. Green do send
greeting Know ye that the said Joel L. Green of the State and District
aforesaid for and in consideration of the good will which Ihave and do bear
toweards my Negro man slave named Will formerly the propery of the Reverend
Hugh Porter dec'd for his good and faithful service servitude unto me I do
by these presents freely give and  grant unto him the said Will his freedom
which the said Will shall henceforth and forever hereafter pass and repass
as a freeman by the name of Willima Witherspoon and for which the said
William Witherspoon shall act and do for himself free from myself my heirs
and assigns forever as teh law of this State directs.  In Witness whereof I
have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty second day of February in the
year of our laord one thousand eight hundred and twenty and in the forty
fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America signed and
sealed in the presence of us John R. Brewer Daniel Clancy
Joel L. Green

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