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Anne Phoebe Taney ... that she has
known Robert Togood or Robert Patterson
as he calls himself about fourteen or
fifteen years ago. He was apprentice to
her Father John Rap? Key in Frederick County
about five miles from Taney Town to
the Blacksmith business. Her said father
....in .... on his farm. The said
Robert continued with this Deponents Father
until his time was out which this Deponent
This deponent always understood in the
family that the said Robert was Freeborn.
That he was one of the Toogood family adjudged
to be free -- being the son of Selby Toogood
whom this Deponent has frequently seen
and understood to have obtained his freedom by
petition to some court of this State.
Robert is about thirty of age, a dark