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Deed of Emancipation of Nancy, a slave; Tensas Parish, Louisiana
  Tensas Parish Courthouse Record Book A, Page 60
  Copied and submitted by Edith Ziegler

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  William Mardis
  to Deed of Emancipation
  Nancy

  Know all men by these presents that I William Mardis of the city of
  Louisville in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have 
  emancipated and set free and do emancipate and set free, my Negro girl
  named Nancy, about 7 years old, a bright Mulatto, well grown, slender
  made daughter of my dark brown negro woman named Eliza and I do hereby 
  forever release the said Nancy from Slavery and all involuntary servi-
  tude to me and my heirs and do declare her to be free to all intents
  and purposes as if she had been born free.
  In witness thereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this seventh
  day of June, One thousand eight hundred and thirty.

                                   William Mardis    (His Seal)
  Teste
  Worden Pope
  David T. Hardison



  State of Kentucky

      At a county court for Jefferson County at the courthouse in the
  city of Louisville on the eighth day of June, One thousand eight hundred
  and thirty. The above deed of Emancipation from William Mardis to Nancy,
  a bright mulatto girl about seven years of age, was produced in the
  said court and acknowledged by the said Mardis to be his act and deed
  and ordered to be recorded and is recorded. 
      The said Nancy being correctly described in the said deed and the
  said William Mardis together with William Pickett his security gave bond
  in the penalty of Three Hundred Dollars, payable to the commonwealth of
  Kentucky with a condition answered, the said Nancy shall not become
  chargeable to the county aforesaid or the public.
      In witness whereof I the Clerk of the said Court and keeper of the
  Seal thereof have hereto set my hand and the said Seal on the day and
  year aforesaid and in the thirty ninth year of the commonwealth.

                         (His Seal)    Warden Pope

  Recorded the Third June 1850

                         (signed)Robert Skinner Recorder