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Summary: Three documents pertaining to George Harrison, a free Negro, providing him a pass through southern Slave states. The second and third documents have been attached. Inventory# 20301 $2,400
1. [George Harrison], partly-printed document signed by a Justice of the Peace and Clerk of Court,
July 4, 1838, Rockingham County, Virginia. 1p. with paper seal. "George a Dark Mulatto man, about Twenty Eight years of age five feet 4-1/2 Inches high has a scar above the right eye, and a scar on the left hand between the little finger and the third finger, is very bowed legged, he was emancipated by the Last Will of David Lard deceased... " 2. [George Harrison], letter signed (by 19 citizens), May 23, 1840. 1 p. " The bearer here of George Harrison (alias George Jake) a free man of Colour is on his way from Harrisonburg in the County of Rockingham and State of Virginia where he was raised to Courtland in Alabama to visit his wife who is the slave of Col n . William M c Mahone formerly of Harrisonburg Va., now a resident near Courtland Alabama. We the undersigned trust that the said George will be permitted to pass without molestation 23 rd May, 1840..." 3. [George Harrison], letter signed (by five citizens of Courtland), April 17, 1854, Courtland, Alabama. To all whom it may Concern, That we the undersigned know the within named boy George Harrison - I have known him all the time since the within dates - as having been a free man of Colour he now starts on his way to Texas with Mr. Ed Shackelford & Wm. Cravens & Wm Shardevoyne. Should any accident happen to his friends we hope he may be permitted to pass to or Return from Texas without molestation. Courtland, Ala. April 17, 1854.
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