E.H. TAYLOR
to
DENNIS AVIERY.
SLAVE RELEASE
To all whom it may concern: This is to certify that Dennis Aviery has been my slave in the State of Georgia for about the term of eight years, but by virtue of money to me in hand paid, his a free and liberated from all allegiance to my authority.
Coloma, el Dorado County, California, February 8, 1851.
Witness, GEORGE SCALL.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EL DORADO COUNTY.
On this day, the eighth of February, A.D., 851, personally appeared before me, the Recorder of said county, E. H. Taylor, satisfactorily proven to me to be the person described herein who executed the foregoing instrument of liberating his Negro slave of the oath of George Scall, a competent witness for that purpose, by me duly sworn, and the said E. H. Taylor acknowledging that he executed the same freely and voluntarily for the use and purpose therein mentioned.
In testimony thereof, I, John Reichardt, Recorder for the said county, have hereunto signed my name, and affixed the seal of said office at Coloma, this day of year first above written.
JOHN A. REICHARDT, Recorder of El Dorado County.
Filed for Recording, February 8, 1851, at 9 o'clock A.M. by JOHN S. REICHARDT.