1844 - Brads to Mary - Botetourt Co, VA

Dublin Core

Title

1844 - Brads to Mary - Botetourt Co, VA

Date

Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata

Location

Date

04/23/1844

Manumitter

Manumitted

Number of Persons

1

Text of Freedom Document

Know all men by these presents that I James Brads of the County of Botetourt and State of Virginia have manumitted, emancipated and set free, and by these presents do manumit, emancipate and set free negro woman slave named Mary when she the said Mary shall have arrived at the full age of thirty years, and I hereby declare her the said Mary to be entirely liberated from slavery and entitled to all the rights and privileges of a free person with which it is in my power to vest her, so soon as she shall have arrived at the full age of thirty years and not until then. She the said Mary (who was presented to me by the late Robert Richey on my marriage) is a woman of dark complexion about five feet two inches high, and is at this date seventeen years old. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 22nd day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four.

James Brads (seal)

Botetourt County to wit:
We M. Pendleton and James P Wilson Justices of the Peace for said county do hereby certify that James Brads personally appeared before us in our county and acknowledged the foregoing deed, and desired us to certify said acknowledgement to the Clerk of the County Court of Botetourt County in order that said deed be recorded.
Given under our hands and seals this 23rd day of April 1844.

M. Pendleton (seal)
J.P. Wilson (seal)

Record Location

Deed Book 26, pg 521

Document Type

Deed

Files

1844_Botetourt_Brads to Mary_DB 26_521.jpg

Citation

“1844 - Brads to Mary - Botetourt Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed February 16, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/1170.