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Title A name given to the resource Petersburg City Manumission Documents Manumission Item Data Manumission Item Data Location The location of the interview Petersburg Virginia Document Type Deed Record Location DB 3:168 Date Court Date 06/05/1804 Manumitter Stephen Goodwyn Manumitted Abraham Text of Freedom Document Know all Men by these presents That I Stephen Goodwyn of the Town of Petersburg and State of Virginia for divers good & sufficient causes me thereunto moving have ^by these presents do Emancipate Manumit & set free^ Manumitted and set free my Negro man named Abraham hereby for myself my heirs executors and Administrators renouncing all future claim to the labour & services of the said Abraham and declaring that he shall hereafter be intitled to all the preveledges Emoluments and advantages which by the laws of the Commonwealth pertain to other free Negroes - In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal at Petersburg aforesaid on the -- day of -- Stephen Goodwyn [Seal] Test. At a Hustings Court Continued and held for the Town of Petersburg at the Courthouse of the said town Tuesday the 5th day of June 1804. A certain Writing or deed of Manumission from Stephen Goodwyn of the Town of Petersburg to a Negro man named "Abraham" was Acknowledged in open Court by the said Stephen Goodwyn as his Act and deed. and on his Motion is Ordered to be recorded -- Attest J. Grammer Cl P. Know all Men by these presents that I James Ferguson of the County of Chesterfield & State of Virginia for and in Consideration of his faithful services and also for the further Consideration of the sum of one dollar to me in hand paid by Cyrus Ferguson, a Mulatto boy known as a Butcher in the town of Petersburg twenty one years old the receipt & payment whereof I do hereby acknowledge and wherefrom the said Cyrus Ferguson is for ever exonerated and discharged Do hereby for myself my heirs Executors, administrators and assigns for ever, quit claim to, release relinquish & make over to the said Cyrus Ferguson all the right title, interest claim and demand whatsoever of me the said James Ferguson my heirs and representatives in and to the labour and services of the said Cyrus Ferguson And that from the date of these presents he shall be intitled to all the immunities and priviledges as by the laws of the said Commonwealth do appertain to other free persons, and to enjoy fully and Completely every benefit under these presents as if he had been born of Free parents. In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal at Petersburg on this Seventeenth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four -- Signed, Sealed, & delivered } Received Augt 17. 1804 of the within named Cyrus Six Shillings. James Ferguson [Seal] in presence of ---------- } James Ferguson . David Maben John Simpson Richd F Hannon At a Hustings Court held for the Town of Petersburg at the Courthouse of the said Town Monday the 3d Day of September 1804 -- A Certain Writing or deed of Manumissi= =on from James Ferguson of the County of Chesterfield to Cyrus Ferguson, a mulatto boy, was proved in open Court to be the Act and deed of the said ^with the receipt indorsed^ James Ferguson, by the Oaths of David Maben and John Simpson two of the Witnesses thereto - and are Ordered to be recorded - Attest J. Grammer Cl P Number of Persons Number of individuals manumitted 1 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 1804 - Goodwyn to Abraham - Petersburg, VA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/72439/archive/files/1a90e2036cce58a6c88b617c1d2ba610.jpg?Expires=1792627200&Signature=jO4T1CrktrrMIPeytLS-FSisDdDc5aS-zFYxWCT2Vl-4W3OY2%7EW5fWv04Shz9dWgClFPCEjYkgRxkwFzD6C8Xln6ZArbMVqntkhEKHpyRSDNT4I-KcsCiXppsg2sG4rLLPed1k4Jk7sc4ogvzwQIdC13oMDMcQdyv2VdlzBafOjWspOABNME7B-JTBCD6Z5czjcewXlvZTaaYdXimJBmczMBzj0Io4F1DNQ1-2EAl9skfNofHakqmr4f%7Efhj8rD4d8GhoH3YRnnl4VwsC%7E7%7EidGjyjAMQfPuDYDkJ2jeuKnfQsuqTIgwOuh8lhbHeKuVkDUdLUhpuFwWQZ8FkUXUDQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 65eb53e949b89cc561ab8ef645c71ebb 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 Greensville County Manumission Documents Manumission Item Data Manumission Item Data Date Court Date 08/01/1805 Location The location of the interview Greensville County Virginia Manumitter James Blanks Manumitted Abraham Text of Freedom Document To all whom these presents may concern. Know ye that I James Blanks of the County of Greensville do by these presents hereby emancipate and set at full liberty from myself my heirs and all persons a negro man slave named Abraham upwards of fifty years of age. As witness my hand and seal this thirteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and five. James Blanks (seal) Greenville August Court 1805. This deed of emancipation was acknowledged by the said James Blanks and ordered to be recorded. Teste, P. Pelham CGC Document Type Deed Record Location DB 3:419 Number of Persons Number of individuals manumitted 1 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 1805 - Blanks to Abraham - Greensville Co,VA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1805 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/72439/archive/files/93affc34b2b45ba8140386c21d308a0f.pdf?Expires=1792627200&Signature=AKiotnqYC1dePzgRhgGiwXG5CjQ2jk-j0WIrzwbMq3eb2bXfDWwIKcOAS%7EnIrEJRgmdUgPB3BNTKRXMlNqRBqLdrMB5-cid4kkC1zKbHfp846G8Lm46b-AQ6CuZrMJiVW7WfObIHEGKRw5rEaxgnAkdjwgdG8XfOub4Vh2i0BUVyNxFctRa4ujVh7g3XP21XH1M%7EYJ8V6qrsTvt1wwZzpHA8hJYs8Kq1GnItRtcDLIzjyZFTiaTNMnWv%7EsYG%7Erp8lZXEj7Wmvrl%7EU9CZkzSaMPal3qlorc3XIjrZALjTga0w7oFqh4Ok2NL-Rm2lehT1EGenz5eMQY40ReMqSwWUZQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 148386c3a86d14840ded4b9f92cd64a7 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 Rockingham County Manumission Documents Manumission Item Data Manumission Item Data Date Court Date 11/17/1817 Location The location of the interview Rockingham County Ohio Manumitter Jacob Singh Manumitted Abraham Number of Persons Number of individuals manumitted 1 Document Type Deed Secondary Source Contains background or continuing information about the manumitted persons Library of Virginia Text of Freedom Document Know all Men by these presents that I Jacob Singh of the County of Champaign & State of Ohio believing it to be unjust and oppressive to hold any Person in Slavery, and believing it his duty to Emancipate and set Free a certain Negro Man Called Abraham now an Inhabitant of the County of Rockingham & State of Virginia do by these presents Emancipate and set free the said Negro Abraham free from the Claim of him the sd. [said] Jacob Singh and his heirs. In Witness whereof the said Jacob Singh have hereunto set his hand & Seal the 17th November 1817[.] Jacob Singh (seal) Teste 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 1817 Title A name given to the resource 1817 - Singh to Abraham - Rockingham Co, VA https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/72439/archive/files/88a28b37821d65d51c307e35c37c91ee.jpg?Expires=1792627200&Signature=pMPe-HSUa8pNiceJHs01q6pfl55B6F%7EOWfLYCQQIdHNA9Ndx2wqrEJ8P64VD2znc3JXozbk9LcJhg4yWffF4sw7m3vESvBrH28uAYGbEI7cmDWyG0roYlUEmmBrPE9dg%7ERlEPB30z-%7E9w2yXQeIDHzvhFNRVuECPmf684vKa4GMFRfCe9k30XZ2z3esDbelsdjHBMj%7EDjLS6p4eTWQaChmVYImRnZp4FUNZ3uXsz0Ll58aJmL2AS6OGetzpY6GPjK-othja9IDbvIJ3ZC1aVbD-l7JUFg-S4QMjBnG%7EsNAMNMEAPCbroqTPNbytPMvIig4ZWfzHoybWU5maoqO880A__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM ff3406a12787ec6bbd4a75329e2503a4 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 Shenandoah County Manumission Documents Manumission Item Data Manumission Item Data Date Court Date 06/07/1824 Location The location of the interview Shenandoah County Virginia Manumitter Isaac Kagy exors Manumitted Abraham Text of Freedom Document Whereas Isaac Kagy late of the County of Shenandoah and State of Virginia died (intestate) seized and possessed of a certain male slave named Abraham about thirty seven years of age healthy and able bodied. To whom these presents may concern know ye that we John Kagy, Abraham Kagy, Rudolph Kagy, Christian Kagy, Henry Kagy, John Berry, Elizabeth Miley heirs and legal representatives of Isaac Kagy dec’d, Martin Roof, Barbara Rush, William Stepp, James Hawkins, Elizabeth Roof, Samuel Roof, Solomon Tilley heirs and legal representatives of Anna Roof dec’d, Abraham Kagy, John Kagy, Isaac Kagy, Gabriel [illegible], Jacob Kagy, Henry Kagy heirs and legal representations of Jacob Kagy dec’d have this day emancipated and by these presents do emancipate and set free the said Abraham. In testimony we have herein to set our hands and affixed our seals this 13th day of Sept. 1823. Test John Kagy (seal) Moses Walton Jeremiah [name] (seal) Patrick McManus Johannah [name] (seal) As to the first twelve 12 [illegible name] (seal) John Korgy Rudolf Roiojy (seal) [?Grnoief Rerojay?] Elizabeth Miley (seal) Gideon L. Sprague Martin Roof (seal) Jared Kimball Elizabeth Roof (seal) Samuel Gochanauer Abraham Kagey (seal) Witnesses to the signing of Abraham Barbara Rush (seal) Kagy, John Kagy Jr. and Isaac Kagy James Hawkins (seal) Gabriel Barb Abraham Kagy (seal) John Kagy (seal) Isaac Kagy (seal) Gabriel Barb (seal) [illegible name] (seal) William Hess (seal) Solomon Pefley (seal) Jorcob Roiojoy (seal) Moses Walter ] as to William Hess & John Neuman ] Henry Kagey Zh Shirley as to Pefley Moses Walton as to Ja. Kagey John Neuman as to Jacob Kagey At a court held for the County of Shenandoah on Monday the 7th day of June 1824. This deed of emancipation from the heirs of Isaac Kagy deceased to negro Abraham was proved by the oaths of Moses Walton, John Neuman and Patrick McManus as to John Kagy, Henry Kagy, John Berry, Christian Kagy, Rudolph Kagy, Elizabeth Miley, Martin Roof, Elizabeth Roof, Samuel Roof, Abraham Kagy, Barbara Rush, and James Hawkins by the affirmation of John Kagy and Henry Kagy witnesses thereto as to Abraham Kagy, John Kagy, Isaac Kagy & Gabriel Barb by the oaths of Moses Walton & John Neuman witnesses thereto as to Henry Kagy, William Hess, & Jacob Kagy & ordered to be recorded as to them and by the oaths of Zachariah Shirley a witnesses thereto as to Solmon Pefley and ordered to be certified as to them. Teste, P. Williams C.S.C. Document Type Deed Record Location DB DD:108 Number of Persons Number of individuals manumitted 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Tazewell County Manumission Documents Manumission Item Data Manumission Item Data Date Court Date 08/22/1829 Location The location of the interview Tazewell County Virginia Manumitter Jacob Waggoner Manumitted Abraham Text of Freedom Document Be it known to all to whom it may concern that agreeable to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia authorizing the emancipation of slaves, I Jacob Waggoner of the County of Tazewell and State of Virginia by said authority and believing that freedom is the natural right of all mankind, do hereby emancipate and set free Abraham a man above forty years of age and do hereby relinquish all right, title, interest and claim to the said negro Abraham or his property if any he should acquire free from myself, my heirs, assigns, Executors or administrators. Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 22nd day of August 1829. Jacob Waggoner (seal) James Harrison Albert G. Pendleton Document Type Deed Record Location DB 5:56 Number of Persons Number of individuals manumitted 1 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 1829 - Waggoner to Abraham - Tazewell Co, VA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1829