Manuscript certificate of status as a free woman for Hannah Reed.

by William Brent

$1,800 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Signed

District of Columbia, 22 June 1836. 1 p. manuscript, signed, on single leaf of wove paper, 12.75” x 7.625”, with additional manuscript note on verso “Hannah Reed’s Certificate and Pass 22 June 1836.” A manuscript pass and certificate issued by the clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia to Hannah Reed, a free “mulatto woman” of Washington, D.C., describing some of her distinct

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