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Title A name given to the resource Chesterfield County Manumission Documents Manumission Item Data Manumission Item Data Date Court Date 07/08/1805 Location The location of the interview Chesterfield County Virginia Manumitter John Barker Manumitted Becky Text of Freedom Document Know all men by these presents that I Benjamin Branch of the county of Dinwiddie acting executor of John Barker deceased a copy of whose testament and last will is hereunto annexed do hereby acknowledge that I have received from Becky (Cuffie’s wife) the negro woman slave in my said testator will mentioned, and from her husband (a free man of color) the said Cuffie compensation for sixty two pounds, ten shillings, given (as appears by the will aforesaid) for the said Becky by her late master the said John Barker deceased. In consideration whereof, and in obedience to, and in execution of the will of my said Testator, I the said Branch executor as aforesaid, have emancipated, manumitted and set free, and by these presents do manumit, emancipate and set free the said Becky, wife of the said Cuffie hereby pronouncing and declaring the said Becky to be no longer a slave, but to be to all intents and purposes as free as if she had been freeborn, and had never been in slavery or bondage. In testimony whereof I the said Benjamin Branch executor as aforesaid of the said John Barker deceased have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 8th day of July 1805. Signed & sealed & acknowledged Benj. Branch (seal) In presence of Ab McKee Memo. The compensation within alluded to was principally made to the within named John Barker in his life time, agreeable to the intent and meaning of the obligation signed by the within named Cuffie which is hereunto annexed. Witness my hand and seal, this 8th day of July 1805. Teste, [illegible] Benj. Branch (seal) At a court held for Chesterfield county the 8th day of July 1805 this deed and the memo indorsed were acknowledged by Benjamin Branch party thereto and ordered to be recorded. Teste, Th. Watkins Clk Document Type Deed Record Location DB 17:94 Number of Persons Number of individuals manumitted 1 Notes Notes regarding the record same woman slated to be freed through the will at WB 4:407 Self Purchase Amount 62L 10s 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 - Barker Exors to Becky - Chesterfield 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/9f89694832becde809743418badec7e6.jpg?Expires=1776902400&Signature=tWKhL48SI8F5j0jn1N-Stdo74Z1cgn4afb%7E6uFU869ZFyKVRBHo7dFY%7EdnlolE8NrDssINJwzIoFGPxfw6RDehq6FLJJvC%7E8MGug5jVj2zjY8Ul2gHqrm7Cg-7w1YayJjJXX3YWyDlQeo3f5QWXPvLpm5g9uiXHW-bwmk2pLi-S9TpQSECdj1W3oVthsb0YaGu30nj-qxaEZCZ%7ED60bk8rN48o37MPfb1vr1MEkYGY8yh%7EFdQ-LsyveACx1xSgO%7ErgXbLadXZdcGztF%7E-UeH-7VGe9pJ7whEK2JckfpqOytVBEYQY4HQGJsXTT5Gd8KWa8t0Jd9zby4N5rQdvdB1OQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM da257d5a48d0fa047a5dbb685f42b8cc 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 Chesterfield County Manumission Documents Manumission Item Data Manumission Item Data Date Court Date 09/28/1792 Location The location of the interview Chesterfield County Virginia Manumitter John Barker Manumitted Becky Text of Freedom Document My will is that Becky Cuffie’s wife shall have her freedom so soon as she and her husband has made compensation for sixty two pounds ten shillings given for her. My will also is that my land in York County be sold with all the stock of my store on hand the debts due collected and all my just debts punctually paid whatever moneys then remaining shall be put in trade with John Hendrick or some other careful person and if J. Hendrick will manage the cole [sic] business with Benjamin he shall have the same of one hundred pounds out of the profits for his service and wagon shall remain with coal mines and after giving my sister Nancy twenty pounds per year during her life the [illegible] neat proceeds shall be applied most prudently to the support of the poorest widows and orphans who shall be sought out by Benjamin Branch, James Okelly, and John Straton now residing in Norfolk whom I appoint my Executors and such as they may think necessary to [illegible] with the advice of the Methodist conference of the south district of Virginia and my will is the profits that may be made yearly from the coal pits shall be applied as aforesaid but the coal mines shall never be sold if they are they shall revert to the children of my sister Sally Bingley Elizabeth Allen & Nancy Barker. Examined John Barker Document Type Last Will & Testament Record Location WB 4:407 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 1792 - Barker to Becky - Chesterfield Co, VA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1792 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/72439/archive/files/8b275919aa98f771ece7ac70d9cbe6e5.pdf?Expires=1776902400&Signature=dS-J2zOla-7HNUZ3TV%7E-i8ctEEbrYXbSTqHy4DTZB7cm5emvT%7EJApMRrDW%7Ee4xgZvjrW5%7EQVj5YVjupuDyI%7E8-VtBGYj6%7EhDOL1N1qzIaGvWTcYeJ15adLWcUyVu2Av-uwKp%7EdITWXVd28Bi2N1nwbfTsppftvI%7Ep165zGRDkKFrQRBHPfFMSMu68OG%7E3N-MqdkOFlz2auSunzBufEM0eDP74Ke32ZcbAUjsYoKBZSQq77zUs1mCsuZV0XEl01NL7LIXJtZttTpOqgKi6tsX67r2W9ZEZpnMm8zdJdjkzSr-TusVq0cLkJGdT5xETqhP9JGztWXl4EJFhKPlPu0iTQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM b3dd6c0d34ea9549044df179f063baeb 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 Bedford County Manumission Documents Manumission Item Data Manumission Item Data Location The location of the interview Bedford VA Manumitter Samuel Phillips Executor G. Wingfield, J. Sale Manumitted Becky Number of Persons Number of individuals manumitted 1 Text of Freedom Document Deed Book 25, Pg 413 Know all men buy these presents that I Samuel Phillips of the County of Bedford in the State of Virginia for divine good causes and caused motions me thereunto moving have and by these presents do manumit , liberate and forever set free from the bonds of slavery my negro woman slave named Becky and I do by these presents for myself my heirs, executors, and administrators forever remiss, release and grant all claiming of property in and to the said Becky as a slave from this date of these presents henceforth and forever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal the first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. S. Phillips seal Signed sealed and delivered In the presence of Geo Wingfield Jno F. Sale Virginia Bedford County court clerks office November 1st 1836. This deed of emancipation from Samuel Phillips to his negro woman slave Becky was produced in office acknowledged by said Phillips and admitted to record. Teste Rob. C. Mitchell CBC Site pages Document Type Deed Record Location B25, P413 (land) Date Court Date 11/01/1836 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 1836 - Phillips to Becky - Bedford Co, VA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1836 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Bedford Co Court Clerk