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TAYLOR BARTON

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NEGRO BOB

EMANCIPATION

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTY OF EL DORADO, COLD SPRINGS PRECINCT

Know all men whom these presents shall come: That I, Taylor Barton, lately a citizen of the State of Missouri, and owner of slaves, do here by this instrument, under my hand and Seal, given this ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-one, set Free from Bondage to me and all men, my slave Bob, and do declare him forever hereafter his own man, wherever he many go. Nevertheless, I make this condition that the said Bob shall remain with me as my slave, faithful and obedient unto me, until the twenty fifth day of December next, commonly known as Christmas.

Witness my hand and seal on the day and date aforesaid. TAYLOR BARTON (Seal)

In the presence of WILLIAM F. EMERSON, December 25, 1851

I do hereby declare my slave Bob, to be forever free from and after this date.

In the presence of I.G. Canfield, Justice of the Peace.

Filed for Record, January 5, 1852, at 4 P.M.

JOHN A. REICHARDT,

Recorder of El Dorado County, California