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[39TH COLORED TROOPS]

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[39TH COLORED TROOPS]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[39TH COLORED TROOPS] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>Notarized Affidavit for free black soldier. DS, 1p, legal folio, Dorchester County, MD, Mar 28, 1866. Federal tax stamp present. In part, “<i>W.A. Vane and Jonas Parker known to me to be respectable white citizens</i>” make oath “<i>that they have known Levin Bromwell late of Company K, 39th Regt U.S. Colored Troops, and that to their knowledge he has been free for more than ten years, and that they believe he was born of free parents and at the time of his enlistment in the 39th Regt he was a resident of Dorchester County, Maryland</i>...“ Boldly penned and signed by Hugh Maguire Esq as Justice of the Peace, and by Vane and Parker. Countersigned and sealed by the Circuit Court for Dorchester County. Court endorsement is light but legible; light toning; o/w VG.</span></p>