Records of the United States District Court
for the District of Columbia Relating to Slaves, 1851-1863.
National Archives Microfilm Publication M433, Roll 3
"Manumission Papers, 1857-1863."

District of Columbia
Washington County to wit:

On this 19^th day of October 1857 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and District aforesaid personally appears Joseph Gales Esq. And makes oath in due form that he knows Anna Virginia Tilghman a mulatto woman about twenty years of age to be a free woman and born of free parents in the city of Washington.

H. Naylor J. Peace