Territory of Utah

County of Great Salt Lake

Personally appeared before me W. I. Appleby, Clerk of the First Judicial District Court of the United States for the Territory of Utah, Williams Camp, who being first duly sown according to law deposeth and says, that a certain Negro boy named Shepard was born in the year 1837 in the State of Tennessee, Henry County, that the said Negro boy Shepard was born a Slave, then belonging to one James Greer, resident of the aforesaid County of Henry in the State of Tennessee; that the said James Greer died in the year 1851 in the State of Arkansas. Previous to his death the said Greer made a will, that after his debts were cancelled, all of his property, remaining, should be equally divided aming his children, fourteen in number, thta according to the said will of the deceased the propery remaining was divided, and the wife of the aforesaid Williams Camp, was one of the heirs of the said deceased Greer. And deponent further says that in January 1853 he, the said Camp and his wife, the hier of the aforesaid deceased Greer, did receive the said Negro boy named Shepard as aforesaid, int eh month of Janauary 1853 in the State of Mississippi, County of Marshal, of the Administrator of the estate of the aforesaid deceased Greer. And deponent further says that since the month of January 1853, the said Nego boy named Shepard as aforesiad has belonged to this deponent Wms Camp aforesaid; that I the aforesaid Camp am justly and lawfully entitled to the labor of the aforesaid, and that the aforesaid Negro boy was brought by him to the Territory aforesaid a slave for life in the year 1854. The said deponent makes this declaration in order that the said Negro boy may be registered as a slave in the Court of Probate, as is made and provided for by the statute of the Territory aforesaid

Williams Camp

Subscribed and sworn to before me this third day of July AD 1856

W I Appleby Clerk

p Curtis E Bolton

Deputy