Sumter County, Alabama	Deed Book A, p. 490
October 14th 1835	State of Alabama		
			County of Sumter
			town of Gainesville
	Be it remembered that on
the fifth day of August AD 1835 Thomas Ware and Charles Buchanon both of said county person-
ally appeared before me Christopher C. Scott Notary Public commissioned by his excellency the governor of the State of
Alabama and duly qualified and sworn according to the laws of the state of Alabama and dwelling in the town of Gainesville
aforesaid and upon oath duly administered to them by me depo-
sed and said that these affiants have for a number of years last past lived at their present residences in within the
boundary of the county ceded to the United States by the Choctaw Indians by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek that during
///// all said time they have been well acquainted with Mary Tom a black female born in said Choctaw nation  That said Mary
is the third daughter of old Tom and old Sally born after old Tom?s freedom and after he had purchased his wife old Sally
& that said Mary is a full sister to Moses and Jack Tom that since these affiants have been acquainted with the said Mary
that she the said Mary has been born of her the following named children  To wit. Emily Y. Ware bone on the 23rd January
1829 Arianah Tom born June 20th 1831  Pernell Tom born March 6th 1833 and George S. Gains Tom born November 10th 1834  The
two first of whom are females the two last males
	Further these affiants say not		Thomas Ware
Sworn to and subscribed 			Charles Buchanon
before me in my office
in the town of Gainesville
aforesaid on the day
and year above written
		In Testimonium Veritates [sic]
			I have hereunto set
		      	my signature and affixed 
			my Notarial seal of office
				Christopher C. Scott
					Notary Public