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First Name	Middle Name	Last Name	Alias	Registration number	Date of registration	Age	Gender	Color	Height- Feet	Height - Inches	Physical description	Free status	Where emancipated	Who emancipated	Previous place of registration	Date of birth	Place of birth	Name of mother	Additional information
Jemima		Valentine	Jemima Bibb	211	1801-01-31	37	Female	light mulatto	5	4	has a black mould on the back of her right hand & several very small ones about her face	born free/free born					Dinwiddie County		Renewed 9th July 1805; Reentered 7 June 1810 by name Jemima Bibby.
Betsy		Stewart		212	1801-01-31	19	Female	light coloured mulatto	5	3.5	has long bushy hair, a small mould on her right cheek	born free/free born					Dinwiddie County	Jemima Valentine	Mother is identified as a free mulatto woman; Renewed 9th July 1805
Sally		Bibby		213	1801-01-31	17	Female	brown mulatto	5	2	bushy hair, holes in her ears	born free/free born					Dinwiddie County	Jemima Valentine
Willis		Bird		214	1801-02-04	20	Male	brown mulatto	5	6	appears to have small scars in each of his eyebrows	born free/free born					Surry County		appears from the affidavits of Benjamin Bilbro & Coleman Harrison of the County of Surry.
David		Coleman		215	1801-04-25	19	Male	dark brown Negro	5	5	stout, well made with short knotty hair							Sally Coleman	Mother Sally Coleman was formerly held by Robert Hall of the County of Dinwiddie & obtained her freedom by a Judgment of the General Court
Christian		Scott		216	1801-06-02	17	Male	brown mulatto	5	3	has short bushy hair & a scar on the upper part of his forehead about where it joins the hair	born free/free born				1783-08-15		Hannah Scott	Registered at request of his mother.

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alexroseg over 1 year ago

Hi! I'm a little uncertain about the status of David Coleman, it's written that his mother obtained her freedom but there's no note that he was born free.