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Sarah's Lawsuit for Freedom

Mary and Bess were actually matiponae like these people of that region of Virginia called the Northern Neck. Sarah, my seven-times-great-grandmother, changes the trajectory of her children and all her descendants who followed. A deposition from a witness saw Mary and Bess arrive decades earlier. So in 1791, the court agreed with Sarah and her children, the grandchildren, all of those relatives who were descendants of Mary and BESS are going to be free.

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