1842 - Cunningham to Malinda - Rockbridge Co, VA

1842 - Cunningham to Malinda - Rockbridge Co, VA

02/19/1842

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Know all men by these presents that I Samuel Cunningham of the county of Rockbridge have manumitted emancipated and set free and by these presents do manumit emancipate & set free a negro woman slave named Malinda & sometimes called Malinda Cunningham who was recently purchased by me of the heirs, distributees & representatives of John Wilson dec’d and I declare her the said Malinda to be entirely liberated from slavery and entitled to all the rights & privileges of a free person with which it is in my power to vest her. She the said Malinda hereby emancipated is a woman of a dark complexion about five feet high and is in the thirty eighty year of her age. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal on this 19th day of February 1842.

Samuel Cunningham (seal)


Clerk’s Office Rockbridge County Court February 19th 1842
This deed from Samuel Cunningham emancipating Malinda Cunningham was this day produced to me, acknowledged and admitted to record.

Teste, Saml M.D. Reid, CRC

Deed Book W:104

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