1832 - McCampbell to Samuel Matthews - Rockbridge Co, VA

1832 - McCampbell to Samuel Matthews - Rockbridge Co, VA

08/27/1832

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Know all men by these presents that I John McCampbell of the County of Rockbridge and State of Virginia have manumitted emancipated and set free, and by these presents do manumit, emancipate and set free, a negro man slave named Samuel and sometimes called Samuel Matthews, who was purchased by me from David McKenny and by him from James Gilmore And I hereby declare him the said Samuel 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 him, he the said Samuel is a man of mulatto complexion, about five feet ten inches high, and about twenty five year old. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this twenty seventh day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.

John McCampbell (seal)

Clerks Office Rockbridge County Court August 27th 1832
This deed from John McCampbell to Samuel a negro man slave was this day produced to me acknowledged by the said John McCampbell and admitted to record.

Teste Saml M D Reid DC

Deed Book R:406

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