O Say Can You See

The deposition of Charles Llewellin aged thirty four years, being sworn on the holy evangely of Almighty God, saith that he knew [strikethrough] a yellow boy named Rob in the possession of Francis Hammersly who belongs as the deponent has since understood to Henry Pile, and he has seen a negro man who drove Mr. Hammersly's carriage who was said to be his father; when he knew the boy he was considered as the slave of Mr. Hammersly, or the Estate of Mrs. Pile whose daughter he married; he does not know the mother of Rob, or his grandmother. Being asked if he has ever heard & from whom that Robert the petitioner was descended from a white woman answers he has not.

Sworn to in open Court
Jno Gwinn Clk