1851 - Adams to Joseph - Rockbridge Co, VA

Dublin Core

Title

1851 - Adams to Joseph - Rockbridge Co, VA

Date

Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata

Location

Date

08/15/1851

Manumitter

Manumitted

Number of Persons

1

Text of Freedom Document

Know all men by these presents that I Hugh Adams of the County of Rockbridge and State of Virginia have this day manumitted and set at liberty and by these presents do manumit and set at liberty my negro man slave Joseph and I do hereby release all claim or authority over the said Joseph and invest him with as full and perfect liberty and freedom to act and do for himself as the laws of this state will permit. The said Joseph was born on the 1st of November 1811 and is now in his thirty seventh year, he is something over six feet high, is of a mulatto color, stout built and well found. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 15th day of August in the year eighteen hundred and forty eight.

Hugh Adams (seal)

Teste
In Rockbridge County Cour Clerk’s office August 15th 1848
This deed of emancipation from Hugh Adams to his slave Joseph was this day produced to me acknowledged by said Adams and admitted to record.

Teste, Rowland D. Bedford DC

Record Location

Deed Book AA:118

Document Type

deed

Files

1851_Rockbridge_Adams to Joseph_DB_AA_118.jpg

Citation

“1851 - Adams to Joseph - Rockbridge Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed February 10, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/1236.