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Robert Searcy

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Portrait of Robert Searcy in masonic regalia.Nashville lawyer; Grand Master of the Knights Templar, 1815-1816. Owned Robert ""Black Bob"" Renfro from 1792 until 1801, when the 4th Legislature of Tennessee declared the African American entrepreneur a free man.
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