1 10 2 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/72439/archive/files/5b9d6e587e05a0523b3fddbdea7fff63.jpg?Expires=1784764800&Signature=uY85F4jdH5qSlQSx4ZF7Jww518MdnPD0rMyeAC5cTT8jn7SYjZA%7E1eTA4BSlkUo9ZxdHjhMcOvVfruF0VnbeBS1UHxwVblWha-StB5WHHvhPABTDat9iHjMiSV%7EzkfCUz7k5Fbzyo3AA4%7EI4QH134HXz7zNteMFJf6GQTvoZZ8404u5%7Ehfib2g7DQvX7hEfBWjW9eQPQgwkWMrBSRZG8mwP5lFjsXwjmzhbOSZGORwKPZAA03Il2q0bdSCUOdDTls8q5etpCvEyif0wIfK-o3jM1T-yVtoR0vUuhzbc0eKN%7E5zLeqlGhTLP80fL4fAZ7K2bspV2DqjkfKsfqxDzDYg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 352ed1ebbbaf1f9cc1406984ba180b05 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Patrick County Manumission Documents Manumission Item Data Manumission Item Data Location The location of the interview Patrick County Virginia Date Court Date 07/30/1795 Manumitter John Ellyson Manumitted Coss Number of Persons Number of individuals manumitted 1 Text of Freedom Document I, John Ellyson of Patrick County in Virginia from mature deliberate Consideration and the Conviction of my own Mind being fully Persuaded that Freedom is the Natural Right of all Mankind that no Law Moral or Divine has give me a Right to, or Property in the Person of any of my fellow Creatures. Do therefore declare that having under my care a Negro Man Named Coss, I do for myself my Heirs Executors and Administrators hereby release unto him the said Coss all my Right Interest Claim or Pretension of Claim Whatsoever as to his Person or any Estate he shall acquire hereafter without any Interruption from me or any Person Claiming for by from or under me In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 30th day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Five Teste Robert Hudspeth William Campbell John Ellyson C.S. At a Court of Quarterly Sessions held for Patrick County on the 30th day of July 1795 The within Instrument of Writing for the Emancipation of Coss a Negro Man was Acknowledged by the within named John Ellyson to be his Act and Deed and the Same was Ordered to be recorded by the Court Teste Samuel Staples Clk Record Location DB 1:329 Document Type Deed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1795 - Ellyson to Coss - Patrick Co, VA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1795 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/72439/archive/files/e54dc2cfd74b7518387421d72d68bb3e.pdf?Expires=1784764800&Signature=X0mHsn4WyVEKe1i2Wpy-DQ%7ELGlKue4fy37m9f%7E1melGPPFYlyr%7Ev6WDGaLA2iUxusKNVTo1HqLUWeY4yeBu19Zpev2ntNJa082q8UNREAlTiyCEJkTGSsof66tZl%7E2%7EPfFbcw6ybkyCLkRlMpxQDinxJ5pyEQyrHzcUSSTGg4MBnKLCDZxVPwiDVH9H4ilJzOZnQZHUqJ7h6B8i%7EKm8eR6MmDzx1buDqOLbWIxsqhdtgoV1YUVHAuQvJpb1kCFZ63b5BJRxMaoDK3X2Uu96xOLZdkA4hhH%7EWE1bYLUXsNY4xNUURiE64iWSVOFmTsMhOBE2FXpGR9Bir2UczDgXY%7EA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 48b00b102ae3331f0443c04735a3ffd6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Kent County Manumission Documents Description An account of the resource The majority of court documents for New Kent County were destroyed, leaving hardly any documents of any kind. If any additional pertinent documents for New Kent are located, they will be added to this collection. Manumission Item Data Manumission Item Data Date Court Date 01/07/1783 Location The location of the interview New Kent County Virginia Manumitter John Ellyson Manumitted Vizl, Peter, Lucy, Tamer, Cate, Frank, Milia, Robert, Daniel, Roger, Elizabeth, Amey, Jemima, Sarah, Mary, Jane, William Document Type Deed Secondary Source Contains background or continuing information about the manumitted persons copy found in Rockingham County records on Library of Virginia Text of Freedom Document John Ellyson of New Kent County being persuaded that Freedom is the natural right of all mankind and that it is my duty to do unto others as I would desire to be done by in the like situation and having under my care sixteen Negroes of the following names. Vizl, Peter, Lucy, Tamer, Cate, Frank, Milia, Robert, Daniel, Roger, Elizabeth, Amey, Jemima, Sarah, Mary, Jane & William I hereby emancipate & set free all and every the above named slaves and I do for my self my heirs Exors & Admors relinquish every right To the interest & claim or pretensions of claim whatsoever either to their persons or to any estate they may hereafter acquire. Several of the said slaves being now in their minority and believing it right for me to act as guardian over them until the males live to the age of twenty one and the females to the age of eighteen years when the above said Negroes and their posterity are to enjoy their freedom as fully as any manner as they [illegible] [illegible] offered without any interruption from me or any person claiming for by from or under me. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal the 7th day of the first month of 1783. John Ellyson (seal) In a Court held for New Kent County the 13th day of February 1783 [illegible] emancipation of Negroes was put into Court by John Ellyson the party thereto and was acknowledged by him & ordered to be recorded. Test. Will: Clayton [county clerk?] a copy test Will. Clayton [county clerk?] Caroline Lewis was born 7th [Apr?] Lucy [Lewis?] was born Feby 12tgh, 1791 Caroline Lewis was born 2nd day of Jany 87 [this page is type set in German except for the last line which is handwritten upside down at the bottom of the page and is used as a 'backing' for the document] Caroline Lewis was born 7th day of January 1787 Number of Persons Number of individuals manumitted 17 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1783 Title A name given to the resource 1783 - Ellyson to Peter, et al - New Kent Co, VA