looking like matmattaponi. well, researchers in that richmond county did enslave one of beth s children and that was sara. and sara was my seven-time great grandmother changes trajectory of her children and all of the descendents who followed. there was a law in 1705 that declared that all children that are enslaved or free, their condition would be based on whatever their mother was. reporter: remember, sara and bess arrived free people. so sara has a lawsuit filed that says we are free. reporter: this is the actual lawsuit filed by sara suing for her freedom, and the freedom of her descendents, and in that deposition, it is from a witness who saw mary and bess arrive decades earlier. so in 1791, the court agreed