Amos Sisco

Summary

Amos Sisco is certified as a free man, who is “about descending the Ohio river on a Steamboat in the Capacity of a Cook.”

Partial Transcription

Freedom Certificate of Amos Sisco   

State of Pennsylvania City of Pittsburgh S. S. I do hereby certify that it has been satisfactorily proved to me an Alderman in & for said City, by good and lawful testimony that the bearer Amos Sisco a young man of a bright mulatto color was born in Washington County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, of free parents that he is upwards of twenty one years of age that he is five feet eight and a half inches high has a small scar on his left cheek and a small scar on his right side, Amos is a good conditioned young man, and is about descending the Ohio river on a Steamboat in the Capacity of a Cook, In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand & seal at the City of Pittsburgh this 19th day of September A. D. 1837

Leonard S. Johns (Seal)

Recorded September 20th 1837