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Polly wanted to make certain that a record that she had become a free person would be protected. Polly had been an enslaved Black person who received her freedom. To assure that, she recorded her manumission paper with the Clerk of the Court of St. Johns County, East Florida. Polly would continue to guard her freedom document itself. By recording a copy of the paper with the clerk, she would be able to prove that she was free even if the document were lost, stolen or destroyed. Any of those events could indeed be a tragedy for her. Polly took her document to the clerk s office, at that time in today s Governor s House. That building served as the courthouse, clerk s office and housed other government offices. Two centuries ago, before the technology to duplicate images existed, papers brought to the clerk s office were copied verbatim by a copyist into bound books and returned to the owner. ....