MANUMISSION PAPER WRITTEN BY EPHRAIM GOSS Ephraim Goss emancipation of John a man of color for and in consideration of service and labor during the full term of 4 years to me faithfully done and performed--is hereby released manumitted liberated and set free from all claim I now have to the said John and the last person to whom the said John owed service as a slave April 18, 1815 Wit: Mn. Hedrick M.G. Clark Joseph Kitchell Basil Prather R.W.C. Patsy continued to live with the family and in death was buried beside them in the Goss Cemetery in Gosport Indiana. Aunt Patsy remembered having been brought as a slave from Guinea and always said she was going back there when she died.