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General Affidavit
Jane Floyd and Luvina Glover
Witnesses of the Slave Marriage of Morris Winlay to
Kate Ling
National Archives - Pension Records
This document of a General Affidavit of Jane Floyd and Luvina Glover for the pension request of
Mary Winlay seeks to establish the marriage line of Morris Winlay. They were witnesses to his slave
marriage to Kate Ling. According to the affidavit she died about December 1867. Note how they
characterized the marriage: "...and her name before marriage was Kate Ling her master's name.
They was married under slave laws of which no record exists...."  Morris Winlay was a veteran of the
33rd USCT, Company D.