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At a court continued and held for Spotsylvania County on Wednesday the 8th day of June 1790.&#13;
This writing from under the hand and seal of John Chew, Executor of Robert Chew Gent dec’d, for the emancipation of January alias James Gordon was acknowledged by the said John Chew and ordered to be recorded.&#13;
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