1855 - Edley to Brown - Rockbridge Co, VA

1855 - Edley to Brown - Rockbridge Co, VA

05/01/1855

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Know all men by these presents that I Thomas L Paxton attorney in fact for David R. Edley in pursuance of authority vested in me, by the annexed letters of attorney have manumitted, emancipated and set free a negro woman slaved named Martha Brown wife of Moses Brown for the purpose of enabling her to accompany her husband to Liberia in Africa. And I hereby declare her the said Martha to be entirely liberated from slavery for the purpose aforesaid. She the said Martha Brown hereby emancipated is a woman of dark mulatto complexion about five feet & an inch high and about thirty two years old. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this first day of May A.D. Eighteen hundred and fifty five.

Witness Tho. L. Paxton (seal)
Attorney in fact for
Dd R. Edley

At Rockbridge County Court May 1 1856

This deed of emancipation from David R. Edley by his attorney Thomas L Paxton to his slave Martha Brown was this day produced in court, acknowledged by the said Paxton and admitted to record.

Teste, C. Chapin C.C.

Deed Book EE:54

deed

Wife of Moses, freed in 1854. Planned to immigrate to Liberia.