Free status certification, payroll, and discharge for Richard Gale

Four pages concerning Richard Gale pasted together at the top right corner. First document is signed testimony by "respectable white citizens" John Hadaway and Samuel Canada that Richard Gale "to their knowledge has been free for more than ten years, and that they believe he was born of free parents". The document is signed by Justice of the Peace James Graves, and an addendum to the form signed by clerk Jesse K. Hews certifies that Graves was authorized to authorize the original form. Both forms are preprinted and completed in black ink, each with a five (5) cent revenue stamp…