1803 - Glenn to Jerry - Louisa Co, VA

Dublin Core

Title

1803 - Glenn to Jerry - Louisa Co, VA

Description

Deed of manumission to Jerry from John Glenn of Louisa Co, VA

Date

Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata

Location

Date

06/13/1803

Manumitter

Manumitted

Number of Persons

1

Text of Freedom Document

To all to whom these presents shall come know ye that I John Glenn of Louisa County and state of Virginia being fully convinced of the impropriety of hereditary slavery and for other human considerations do hereby for myself and my heirs forever emancipate and set free my negro man named Jerry which said negro man I purchased of James Micher of the County and State of Virginia aforesaid and the said negro man Jerry is forever hereafter to be instituted to pursue his callings and to receive all the arising benefits therefrom in the same manner as he might do if he had been born free as far as the laws of his country will admit as witness my hand this 30th day of April 1803.

Witness John Glenn
John Gilbert, John Poindexter

At a court held for Louisa County on the 13th day of June 1803 this manumission was this day in open court proved to be the act and deed of John Glenn by the oath of John Poindexter one of the witnesses thereto and by the court ordered to be recorded.

Teste, John Poindexter, CC

Record Location

Deed Book J:529

Document Type

Deed

Notes

acknowledges the "impropriety of hereditary slavery"

Files

1803_Louisa_Glenn to Jerry_DB_J_529.jpg

Citation

“1803 - Glenn to Jerry - Louisa Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed February 16, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/1275.