1852 - Bolin to Ellen - Rockbridge Co, VA

1852 - Bolin to Ellen - Rockbridge Co, VA

10/02/1852

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Know all men by these presents that I James Bolin, a free man of color of Lexington Virginia, from motives of parintal [sic] affection, have manumitted & set free from slavery & do hereby manumit & set free from slavery, my daughter Elvira Cooper a mulatto woman, aged twenty six, together with her children, four in number to wit, Frank, aged five years – John, aged three years & six months- Martha, aged two years & Ellen aged eleven months. And I do hereby give, grant & release unto the said Elvira & her children as aforesaid, & all her future increase, all my right, title & claim of, in, & to her person, labour & services, & to the persons, labor & services of her children as aforesaid & of, in & to all the estate & property, which she or they may hereafter acquire. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 1st day of October 1852.

Signed sealed & delivered James Bolin (seal)
In the presence of
J.D. Davidson
E.J.H. McCampbell
Jas. G. Davidson

In Rockbridge County Cour Clerk’s office October 2, 1852
This deed of manumission from James Bolin to Elvira Cooper was this day produced to me, proved by James D. Davidson and Edwin J.H. McCampbell two of the subscribing witnesses thereto, and admitted to record.
Teste, C. Chapin CC

Deed Book CC:191

deed

Elvira (mother) and her four children