1846 - Gish to Stephen - Botetourt Co, VA

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Title

1846 - Gish to Stephen - Botetourt Co, VA

Date

Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata

Location

Date

01/09/1846

Manumitter

Manumitted

Number of Persons

1

Text of Freedom Document

Know all men by these presents that we Samuel Moomaw, George Layman, Jacob Gish, James Snider, Daniel Kinzie, Charles Carney, Peter Nininger, Jacob G. Sperry, and Catharine Sperry and John Gish of the County of Botetourt and State of Virginia, heirs and distributes of Abraham Gish dec’d have manumitted and set free a negro man slave named Stephen who descended to us from the estate of said Abraham Gish dec’d and we hereby declare him the said Stephen to be entirely liberated from slavery and entitled to all the rights and privileges of a free person with which it is in our power to vest him. He the said Stephen hereby emancipated is a man of dark complexion about five feet five & half inches and about twenty-eight years old.
In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this 8th day of February in the year 1845.

Samuel Moomaw (seal) Peter Nininger (seal)
George Layman (seal) JG Sperry (seal)
Jacob Gish (seal) Cath. Sperry (seal
James Snider (seal) Charles Carney (seal)
Daniel Kinzie (seal) John Gish (seal)

Botetourt County to wit:
We Nathan P. Suck and Henry M. Bowyer Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid and State of Virginia do hereby certify that Samuel Moomaw, George Layman, Jacob Gish, James Snider, Daniel Kinzie, Peter Nininger, Jacob G. Sperry, Catharine Sperry, Charles Carney and John Gish parties to a certain deed of emancipation bearing date on the 8th day of February 1845, and hereto annexed personally appeared before us in our county aforesaid and acknowledged the same to be their act and deed and desires us to certify said acknowledgement to the Clerk of Botetourt County Court in order that the same may be recorded. Given under our hands and seals this 8th day of February 1845.

Nathan P. Suck J.P. (seal)
Henry M. Bowyer J.P. (seal)

Roanoke County to wit:
We W.M. Peyton and John P. Kizer Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid & State of Virginia do hereby certify that Charles Carney party to a deed of emancipation bearing date on the 8th day of February 1845 and hereunto annexed, personally appeared before us in our said County and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed and desired us to certify said acknowledgement to the Clerk of the County Court of Botetourt in order that the said deed may be recorded. Given under our hands and seals this 27th day of Oct. 1845.

W.M. Peyton (seal)
Jn. P. Kizer (seal)

Botetourt County Court Clerk’s office 9th January 1846
This deed with the certificates thereon written respecting the acknowledgement thereof, was this day exhibited in said office, acknowledged by John Gish a party thereto and admitted to record.

Teste, Wm. Robinson DC

Record Location

Deed Book 27, pg 472-473

Document Type

Deed

Files

1846_Botetourt_Gish to Stephen_DB 27_472-473.jpg

Citation

“1846 - Gish to Stephen - Botetourt Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed February 16, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/1171.